A people's history of the United States : 1492-present / Howard Zinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

702 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Twentieth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, 1999.

Summary:

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places--to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of--and in the words of--America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles--the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality--were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.

Contents:

1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress 1

2. Drawing the Color Line 23

3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition 39

4. Tyranny Is Tyranny 59

5. A Kind of Revolution 77

6. The Intimately Oppressed 103

7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs 125

8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God 149

9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom 171

10. The Other Civil War 211

11. Robber Barons and Rebels 253

12. The Empire and the People 297

13. The Socialist Challenge 321

14. War Is the Health of the State 359

15. Self-help in Hard Times 377

16. A People's War? 407

17. "Or Does It Explode?" 443

18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam 469

19. Surprises 503

20. The Seventies: Under Control? 541

21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus 563

22. The Unreported Resistance 601

23. The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy 631

24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards 645

Afterword for the Twentieth Anniversary Edition 657.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [663]-682) and index.

ISBN:

0060194480

OCLC:

42420960