Descript |
729, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Subject |
United States -- History.
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Series |
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
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Harper Perennial modern classics.
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Note |
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2005. |
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"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 pages following main text. |
Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-708) and index. |
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. |
ISBN |
9780061965586 |
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0061965588 |
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9780061965593 |
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0061965596 |
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