The Twentieth Century: A People's HistoryHarper Collins, 13. 10. 2009 - Počet stran: 512 “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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... strikes and protest movements toward an external enemy ? Would it not unite people with government , with the armed forces , instead of against them ? This was proba- bly not a conscious plan among most of the elite - but a natural ...
... strike in Pennsylvania . Miners marching on a highway to the Lattimer mine - Austrians , Hun- garians , Italians , Germans - who had originally been imported as strikebreakers but then organized themselves , refused to disperse ...
... export of Cuba's minerals were in American hands , mostly Bethlehem Steel . During the military occupation a series of strikes took place . In September 1899 , a gathering of thousands of workers THE EMPIRE AND THE PEOPLE 17.
... strike for the eight - hour day , saying , " ... we have determined to promote the struggle between the worker and the capitalist . For the workers of Cuba will no longer tolerate remaining in total subjection . " The American General ...
... strike , the long prison term of her lover and comrade , Alexander Berkman , the depression of the 1890s , the strike strug- gles of New York , her own imprisonment on Blackwell's Island , spoke at a meeting some years after the Spanish ...
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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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