A History of our time : readings on postwar America / edited by William H. Chafe, Harvard Sitkoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chafe, William H., 1942-

Sitkoff, Harvard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--1945-.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 453 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [1987]

Summary:

This comprehensive, widely-used anthology offers a dynamic assessment of the major issues in post-World War II American history. In this second edition, the editors include contemporary articles on the Cold War and the 1960s and present new discussions of the counterculture, the New Right, conservatism under the Reagan administration, the new poverty, and the politics of the 1950s and 1960s.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 447-453.

ISBN:

0195042042

OCLC:

13946854