Shared by:oxx78
Written by Howard Zinn
Edition: 2003
Format(s): PDF
Language: English
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 by monied elites to defuse and contain more revolutionary impulses; voting, in fact, is but the most insidious of the "controls." It's too bad that Zinn dismisses two centuries of talk about "patriotism, democracy, national interest" as mere "slogans" and "pretense," because the history he recounts is in large part the effort of downtrodden people to claim these ideals for their own.
| Announce URL: | http://inferno.demonoid.me:3391/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | http://inferno.demonoid.me:3391/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce |
| Info Hash: | 4806805875901d037e674e40e9b01b1a4d5af1d1 |
| Creation Date: | Tue, 24 May 2011 01:28:18 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn.epub 1.13 MBs | |
| A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn.mobi 1.33 MBs | |
| Torrent downloaded from Demonoid.me.txt 46 Bytes | |
| Combined File Size: | 2.46 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 32 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by theebooksbay.com |
| Torrent Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Seeds: | 54 |
| Peers: | 4 |
| Completed Downloads: | 920 |
| Torrent Download: | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips: | Sometimes the torrent health info isn't accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download: | Download Files Now |
| Tips: | You could try out the alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download: | Start Anonymous Download |
| Ads: |
|
