TY - BOOK AU - Zinn,Howard TI - A People's history of the United States: : 1492 - present T2 - Modern Classics SN - 9780060838652 U1 - 973 PY - 2001///. CY - New York: PB - Harper Perennial, KW - Estados Unidos - Historia KW - Estados Unidos - Condiciones sociales KW - Estados Unidos - Esclavitud N1 - Contiene bibliografía: páginas 689-708; Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress. — Drawing the Color Line. — Persons of Mean and Vile Condition. — Tyranny Is Tyranny. — A Kind of Revolution. — The Intimately Oppressed. — As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs. — We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God. — Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom. — The Other Civil War. — Robber Barons and Rebels. — The Empire and the People. — The Socialist Challenge. — War Is the Health of the State. — Self-help in Hard Times. — A People's War? — "Or Does It Explode?" — The Impossible Victory: Vietnam. — Surprises. — The Seventies: Under Control? — Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus. — The Unreported Resistance. — The Coming Revolt of the Guards. — The Clinton Presidency. — The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism" N2 - In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties. A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored ER -