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Author : Erskine Caldwell,Margaret Bourke-white
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000556237
Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0060528427
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History 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, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Author : United States. Office of War Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : United States
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU16339207
Author : Roger Bennett
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780062958723
The #1 New York Times Bestseller One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980’s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir for fans of Jon Ronson and Chuck Klosterman, but with Roger Bennett’s signature pop culture flair and humor. Being a teenager isn’t easy, no matter where in the world you live or how much it does or doesn’t rain in your hometown. As an outsider—a private-schooled Jewish kid in working-class, heavily Catholic Liverpool—Roger Bennett wasn’t winning any popularity contests. But there was one idea, or ideal, that burned bright in Roger’s heart. That was America— with its sunny skies, beautiful women, and cool kids with flipped collars who ate at McDonald’s. When he embraced American popular culture, the dull gray world he lived in turned to neon teal—a color which had not even been invented in England yet. Introduced first through the gateway drug of The Love Boat, then to Rolling Stone, the NFL, John Hughes movies, Run-DMC, and Tracy Chapman, Roger embraced everything that would capture the imagination of a teenager growing up Stateside. When he made a real, in-the-flesh American friend who invited him over for the summer, he got to visit the promised land. A month in Chicago, and a life-changing night spent in the company of the Chicago Bears, was the first hit of freedom, of independence, of the Roger Bennett he knew he could be. (Re)Born in the USA captures the universality of growing pains, growing up, and growing out of where you come from. Drenched in the culture of the late ’80s and ’90s from the UK and the USA, and the heartfelt, hilarious sense of humor that has made Roger Bennett so beloved by his listeners, here is both a truly unique coming-of-age story and the love letter to America that the country needs right now.
Author : Daniel Immerwahr
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374715120
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807013144
New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Author : Jonathan Claay
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783749466344
Did you hear the story about the European who moved to America? America: that potpourri of modern dysfunctionalia... ...that sticky, spicy, simmering crawfish gumbo of a society... ...where a half-white man can become the first black president. America: love it or leave it... or else!
Author : Reader's Digest Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
ISBN : WISC:89058297706
The perfect travel companion for anyone and everyone, this book provides 136 customized tours, covering every region of the country. Each tour, shown in a clearly marked color map, is designed as a loop, allowing travelers to start at the most convenient place and spend as much time as they'd like exploring sights and having adventures. 270 color photos.
Author : Stephen Wertheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674248663
A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed superpower—and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore. Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”—a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.” We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the World reveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.
Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0160831180
"Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.
Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 157488641X
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author : Roger H. Ewing
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781449051747
Roger Ewing was ONE of America's first international inspectors of weapons systems and disarmament as he participated in the First International Disarmament Exercise as a Division Inspector. Roger learned the ability to analyze a country's capability to wage war. He also predicted the fall of the Soviet Union from within 16 years before it happened. Now he is trying to wake up Americans to the reality that the DOWNFALL OF THE USA is a real possibility unless the Congress of the USA wakes up to reality and understands the survival of our country is at stake. Roger explains how the USA is on a collision course with the JIHAD and Communist China. He explains how politics have trumped reality and the consequence has been that our military has not kept up to the events of this dangerous world. In 1994 the Communist Chinese leaders initiated a 15 year program to upgrade their military technology and those 15 years are up in 2009. Their military technology today is almost at the level with the USA. Beginning in 2010 Communist China will be ready to attack the USA with a much larger military than ours. We are in imminent danger! Remember China is controlled by a Communist Party that wants to rule the world. It is well known by many scholars that the GREAT PYRAMID was inspired by GOD as to the layout and construction. It is a STONE CALENDAR which has predicted every major event in the world and it ends in 2012! Also, the Mayan calendar ends in 2012! The Aztecs also predicted the world would end in 2012! Folks, Jerusalem is the key. If Jerusalem is destroyed the world as we know it will be destroyed and half of the world's population including the USA.
Author : Michael Beckley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501724794
The United States has been the world's dominant power for more than a century. Now many analysts believe that other countries are rising and the United States is in decline. Is the unipolar moment over? Is America finished as a superpower? In this book, Michael Beckley argues that the United States has unique advantages over other nations that, if used wisely, will allow it to remain the world's sole superpower throughout this century. We are not living in a transitional, post-Cold War era. Instead, we are in the midst of what he calls the unipolar era—a period as singular and important as any epoch in modern history. This era, Beckley contends, will endure because the US has a much larger economic and military lead over its closest rival, China, than most people think and the best prospects of any nation to amass wealth and power in the decades ahead. Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, this book covers hundreds of years of great power politics and develops new methods for measuring power and predicting the rise and fall of nations. By documenting long-term trends in the global balance of power and explaining their implications for world politics, the book provides guidance for policymakers, businesspeople, and scholars alike.
Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436
Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Performance awards
ISBN : UIUC:30112105079849