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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harper Perennial modern classics

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

729, 16 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Originally published : New York :. HarperCollins, c2003. [New ed.]

New York : HarperPerennial, 2005.

Summary:

Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

Contents:

Columbus, the Indians, and human progress

Drawing the color line

Persons of mean and vile condition

Tyranny is tyranny

A kind of revolution

The intimately oppressed

As long as grass grows or water runs

We take nothing by conquest, thank God

Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom

The other civil war

Robber barons and rebels

The empire and the people

The socialist challenge

War is the health of the state

Self-help in hard times

A people's war?

"Or does it explode?"

The impossible victory: Vietnam

Surprises

The seventies: under control?

Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus

The unreported resistance

The coming revolt of the guards

The Clinton presidency

The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism."

Afterword.

Notes:

"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 p. following main text.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-708) and index.

ISBN:

0060838655

9780060838652

OCLC:

61265580