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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)

By Howard Zinn

ISBN: 9780060528379

Published: 2003

Number of Pages: 752

Edition: Reprint

Binding: Paperback


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Product Type: Book

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Description: This is a new edition of the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present. This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to portray the social turmoil behind the "march of progress". 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 America's greatest battles - the fights for 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 the Clinton years A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, is an insightful analysis of the most important events in US history.


International Standard Book Number: 00605283700060528370 (pbk.) :
   - Terms of availability: $18.95

Other Standard Identifier
   - Standard number or code: 9780060528379

Geographic Area Code: n-us---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: E 178
   - Item number: Z75 2003

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Classification number: 973

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Zinn, Howard,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1922-

Title Statement
   - Title: A people's history of the United States, 1492-present /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Howard Zinn.

Varying Form of Title
   - Title proper/short title: People's history of the United States

Edition Statement: Red. and Updated ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Perennial Classics,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c2003.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 729 p. ;
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-708) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny Is tyranny -- Kind of revolution -- Intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- Other Civil War -- Robber barons and rebels -- Empire and the people -- Socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- People's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- Impossible victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- Seventies: Under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush: Bipartisan consensus -- Unreported resistance -- Coming revolt of the guards -- Clinton presidency -- 2000 election and the "War on Terrorism".
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   - Title: "Or does it explode?" --
   - Title: 2000 election and the "War on Terrorism"
   - Title: As long as grass grows or water runs --
   - Title: Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus --
   - Title: Clinton presidency --
   - Title: Columbus, the Indians, and human progress --
   - Title: coming revolt of the guards --
   - Title: Drawing the color line --
   - Title: empire and the people --
   - Title: impossible victory: Vietnam --
   - Title: intimately oppressed --
   - Title: Kind of revolution --
   - Title: other Civil War --
   - Title: people's war? --
   - Title: Persons of mean and vile condition --
   - Title: Robber barons and rebels --
   - Title: Self-help in hard times --
   - Title: seventies: under control? --
   - Title: Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom --
   - Title: socialist challenge --
   - Title: Surprises --
   - Title: Tyranny Is tyranny --
   - Title: unreported resistance --
   - Title: War is the health of the state --
   - Title: We take nothing by conquest, thank God --

Summary, etc.: Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research. A People's History of the United States 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, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Revised and updated with two new chapters covering Clinton's presidency, the 2000 Election, and the "war on terrorism." A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history.

Local Notes: PCC copy on reserve for [RC HST 201].6

Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
   - Geographic name: United States
   - General subdivision: History
   - General subdivision: History.


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