A people's history of the United States: 1492-present [Revised edition] 9780062397348, 9780062466679, 0062397346

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A people's history of the United States: 1492-present [Revised edition]
 9780062397348, 9780062466679, 0062397346

Table of contents :
1. Columbus, the Indians, and human progress --
2. Drawing the color line --
3. Persons of mean and vile condition --
4. Tyranny is tyranny --
5. A kind of revolution --
6. The intimately oppressed --
7. As long as grass grows or water runs --
8. We take nothing by conquest, thank God --
9. Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom --
10. The other civil war --
11. Robber barons and rebels --
12. The empire and the people --
13. The socialist challenge --
14. War is the health of the state --
15. Self-help in hard times --
16. A people's war? --
17. "Or does it explode?" --
18. The impossible victory: Vietnam --
19. Surprises --
20. The seventies: under control? --
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus --
22. The unreported resistance --
23. The coming revolt of the guards --
24. The Clinton presidency --
25. The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism" --
Afterword --
Bibliography --
Index.

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