Howard Zinn was a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and a bombardier with the U.S. Army Air Force in Europe during the Second World War before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Zinn taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lived in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States 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, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency.
Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."
If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior high school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, A People's History of the United States is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at the rich, rocky history of America.
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.
length: (cm)20.9 width:(cm)16
本书的视角很有趣,作者是从被压迫者角度来走一遍美国通史。与其说是人民的历史不如说是失败者、炮灰、牺牲品的历史。在大的变革和利益重新分配的历史进程中,那些参与的底层人民是如何被利用和被抛弃的。 读这本书有奇怪的感觉。直接参与变革的人民得到的好处总是微乎其微,...
評分这本书记载的很多历史发人深省,有很多话意味深长。 美国两百余年的历程,历来被看作是一个荣光闪耀的历程。从《独立宣言》到《美国宪法》,从《废除黑奴宣言》到《罗斯福新政》,一切那么辉煌壮丽。它光辉太强、太剧烈,以致于几乎掩盖了所有的黑暗。但是,作者通过他锐利的眼...
評分想了半天编不出标题,想起马克思写的这本小册子,又想起我的一位朋友把Zinn戏谑地成为“被Communism洗脑”,觉得还挺应景的,就这样叭。 起因是这本书是AP USH的暑假作业,在班群聊天,一个朋友说,他觉得作者Zinn十分傻逼片面且不负责任,“被C主义洗脑”,想起我自己读这本书...
評分这本书记载的很多历史发人深省,有很多话意味深长。 美国两百余年的历程,历来被看作是一个荣光闪耀的历程。从《独立宣言》到《美国宪法》,从《废除黑奴宣言》到《罗斯福新政》,一切那么辉煌壮丽。它光辉太强、太剧烈,以致于几乎掩盖了所有的黑暗。但是,作者通过他锐利的眼...
評分《牛津美国史》(Oxford History of the United States)是现代历史学的一项伟大成就。该丛书自1982年起陆续出版,已获得三次普利策奖。其中有几册精彩绝伦,例如詹姆斯·麦克弗森(James McPherson)有关内战的《为自由而战的呐喊》(Battle Cry of Freedom),以及大卫·肯尼...
本書一言以蔽之:被驅逐的印第安人,被奴役的黑人,被剝削的窮睏白人,被歧視的女性,被轟炸的外國人,統統起來反抗吧,推翻萬惡的美國政府吧!這書的共産主義傾嚮太強,因此不適閤作為美國曆史的啓濛讀物,但有助於理解美國社會的階級性(全人類都一樣),領會財富和權力的分配機製,以及吸收人道主義精神(作者真的好聖父)。Anyway,期待中譯本的到來……七百多頁的英文啃瞭一個多月纔完,再重來一遍我會瘋掉的LOL。
评分人民曆史觀!
评分A book with conscience and feelings. A book shares more similarities with our text books than Americans'.
评分書雖然寫得好,但讀瞭一半不想讀瞭,美國的曆史真是現實又無趣。
评分Best history book ever! My favorite author for history!
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美書屋 版权所有