Details

Subject(s)

• United States—Civilization [Browse]
• United States—History [Browse]

Series

• Harper Perennial modern classics [More in this series]
• Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Summary note

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

Notes

• First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2005.
• Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1980.
• "P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 pages following main text.

Bibliographic references

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

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 ((pbk.))
• 0061965588 ((pbk.))
• 9780061965593
• 0061965596

OCLC

655496896

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