A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present

ISBN-13: 9780582772830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 744 str.

Howard Zinn

Opis

This account of US history from the bottom up tells the real story of the people, rather than the flag-waving official story.

Spis treści

1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress.
2. Drawing the Color Line.
3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition.
4. Tyranny is Tyranny.
5. A Kind of Revolution.
6. The Intimately Oppressed.
7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs.
8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God.
9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom.
10. The Other Civil War. 11. Robber Barons and Rebels.
12. The Empire and the People.
13. The Socialist Challenge.
14. War is the Health of the State.
15. Self-help in Hard Times.
16. A People's War? 17. "Or Does It Explode?"
18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam.
19.Surprises.
20.The Seventies: Under Control?
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus.
22. The Unreported Resistance.
23.The Coming Revolt of the Guards.
24. The Clinton Presidency.
Afterword.
Bibliography.
Index.

O autorze

Howard Zinn was formerly a Professor of Political Science at the University of Boston.