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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... became troublesome . 1893 - Hawaii - Ostensibly to protect American lives and property ; actually to promote a provisional government under Sanford B. Dole . This action was disavowed by the United States . 1894 - Nicaragua - To protect ...
... became one of the lead- ing anti - imperialists of his time , wrote about Roosevelt that he " gushes over war as the ideal condition of human society , for the manly strenuousness which it involves , and treats peace as a con- dition of ...
... became a big export in the 1880s and 1890s : by 1891 , the Rockefeller family's Standard Oil Company accounted for 90 per- cent of American exports of kerosene and controlled 70 percent of the world market . Oil was now second to cotton ...
... became leader of the insurrectos fighting the United States . He proposed Filipino independence within a U.S. protectorate , but this was rejected . It took the United States three years to crush the rebellion , using seventy thousand ...
... , despite all the demonstrated power of the state , large numbers of blacks , whites , men , women became impatient , immoderate , unpatriotic . | 20 | THE SOCIALIST CHALLENGE War and jingoism might 30 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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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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