About this history book
A people's history of the United States : 1492-present by Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
From Publishers Weekly According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives of national unity and progress are a smoke screen disguising the ceaseless conflict between elites and the masses whom they oppress and exploit. Historian Zinn sides with the latter group in chronicling Indians' struggle against Europeans, blacks' struggle against racism, women's struggle against patriarchy, and workers' struggle against capitalists. First published in 1980, the volume sums up decades of post-war scholarship into a definitive statement of leftist, multicultural, anti-imperialist historiography. This edition updates that project with new chapters on the Clinton and Bush presidencies, which deplore Clinton's pro-business agenda, celebrate the 1999 Seattle anti-globalization protests and apologize for previous editions' slighting of the struggles of Latinos and gays. Zinn's work is an vital corrective to triumphalist accounts, but his uncompromising radicalism shades, at times, into cynicism. Zinn views the Bill of Rights, universal suffrage, affirmative action and collective bargaining not as fundamental (albeit imperfect) extensions of freedom, but as tactical concessions b
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- Author
- Howard Zinn, Howard Zinn
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial Modern Classics; HarperPerennial
- Published
- 1977
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060838652
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Reference