The Twentieth Century: A People's HistoryHarper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 512 páginas “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book Review Containing just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, this reissue is brought up-to-date with coverage of events and developments since 2001, analyzing such incidents in modern political history such as the Gulf War, the post-Cold War “peace dividend,” and the continuing debate over welfare, the Clinton presidency, and the “war on terrorism.” Highlighting not just the usual terms of presidential administrations and congressional activities, this book provides readers with a “bottom-to-top” perspective, giving voice to our nation’s minorities and letting the stories of such groups as African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the laborers of all nationalities be told in their own words. Challenging traditional interpretations of U.S. history, The Twentieth Century is the book for readers interested in gaining a more realistic and complete picture of our world." |
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... Secretary of State Dean Rusk to a Senate committee in 1962 to cite precedents for the use of armed force against Cuba ) , shows 103 interventions in the affairs of other countries between 1798 and 1895. A sampling from the list , with ...
... Secretary of State : In this revolution , the negro element has the most important part . Not only the principal leaders are colored men , but at least eight- tenths of their supporters . . . . and the result of the war , if the Island ...
... Secretary of State , later called a " splen- did little war . " The American military pretended that the Cuban rebel army did not exist . When the Spanish surrendered , no Cuban was allowed to confer on the surrender , or to sign it ...
... Secretary of War Elihu Root responded to the charges of bru- tality : " The war in the Philippines has been conducted by the American army with scrupulous regard for the rules of civilized warfare .... with self - restraint and with ...
... secretary of the province esti- mated that of the population of 300,000 , one - third had been killed by combat , famine , or disease . Mark Twain commented on the Philippine war : We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and ...
Contenido
45634 | 77 |
SELFHELP IN HARD TIMES | 99 |
VIETNAM | 213 |
8 | 278 |
UNDER CONTROL? | 301 |
THE BIPARTISAN CONSENSUS | 328 |
THE UNREPORTED RESISTANCE | 376 |
THE COMING REVOLT | 413 |
THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY | 426 |
THE 2000 ELECTION | 466 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 476 |
INDEX | 489 |
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