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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
July 20, 2010, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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in English
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People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
August 2, 2005, Harper Perennial Modern Classics
in English
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A people's history of the United States, 1492-present
2005, HarperPerennial
in English
- Zinn Education Project ed.
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La otra historia de los Estados Unidos
2004, Editorial de Ciencias Sociales
in Spanish
- 1a ed. cubana.
9590606423 9789590606427
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
2003, HarperCollins
in English
- [New ed.].
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A people's history of the United States: 1492-present
2001, Perennial Classics
in English
- 1st Perennial Classics ed.
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La otra historia de los Estados Unidos: desde 1492 hasta hoy
1999, Siglo Veintiuno
in Spanish
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A people's history of the United States: 1492-present
1999, HarperCollins
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- 20th anniversary ed.
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A people's history of the United States
1990, HarperPerennial, HarperCollinsPublishers
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- 1st HarperPerennial ed.
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A people's history of the United States
1980, Harper & Row
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- 1st Harper colophon ed.
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First Sentence
"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat."
Table of Contents
1.
Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
Page 1
2.
Drawing the Color Line
Page 23
3.
Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
Page 39
4.
Tyranny is Tyranny
Page 59
5.
A Kind of Revolution
Page 77
6.
The Intimately Oppressed
Page 103
7.
As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs
Page 125
8.
We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
Page 149
9.
Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
Page 171
10.
The Other Civil War
Page 211
11.
Robber Barons and Rebels
Page 253
12.
The Empire and the People
Page 297
13.
The Socialist Challenge
Page 321
14.
War Is the Health of the State
Page 359
15.
Self-help in Hard Times
Page 377
16.
A People's War?
Page 407
17.
"Or Does It Explode?"
Page 443
18.
The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
Page 469
19.
Surprises
Page 503
20.
The Seventies: Under Control?
Page 541
21.
Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
Page 563
22.
The Unreported Resistance
Page 601
23.
The Coming Revolt of the Guards
Page 631
24.
The Clinton Presidency
Page 643
25.
The 2000 Election and "The War on Terrorism"
Page 675
Afterword
Page 683
Bibliography
Page 689
Index
Page 709
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