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The Forging of the American Empire

Author : Sidney Lens
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745321004
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Forging of the American Empire written by Sidney Lens and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2003-06-20 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mexico to Vietnam, from Nicaragua to Lebanon, and more recently to Kosovo, East Timor and now Iraq, the United States has intervened in the affairs of other nations. Yet American leaders continue to promote the myth that America is benevolent and peace-loving, and involves itself in conflicts only to defend the rights of others; excesses and cruelties, though sometimes admitted, usually are regarded as momentary aberrations.This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism. Now fully updated, and featuring a new introduction by Howard Zinn, it is a must-read for all students and scholars of American history. Renowned author Sidney Lens shows how the United States, from the time it gained its own independence, has used every available means - political, economic, and military - to dominate other nations.Lens presents a powerful argument, meticulously pieced together from a huge array of sources, to prove that imperialism is an inevitable consequence of the U.S. economic system. Surveying the pressures, external and internal, on the United States today, he concludes that like any other empire, the reign of the U.S. will end -- and he examines how this time of reckoning may come about.

Forging America

Author : John Bezis-Selfa
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722190
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Forging America written by John Bezis-Selfa and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states. Initially constructed more than two hundred years ago, they housed blast furnaces that converted rock and wood into the iron that enabled the United States to secure its national independence. By the eve of the Revolutionary War, furnaces and forges in the American colonies turned out one-seventh of the world's iron.Forging America illuminates the fate of labor in an era when industry, manhood, and independence began to take on new and highly charged meanings. John Bezís-Selfa argues that the iron industry, with its early concentrations of capital and labor, reveals the close links between industrial and political revolution. Through means ranging from religious exhortation to force, ironmasters encouraged or compelled workers—free, indentured, and enslaved—to adopt new work styles and standards of personal industry. Eighteenth-century revolutionary rhetoric hastened the demise of indentured servitude, however, and national independence reinforced the legal status of slavery and increasingly defined manual labor as "dependent" and racially coded. Bezís-Selfa highlights the importance of slave labor to early American industrial development. Research in documents from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries led Bezís-Selfa to accounts of the labor of African-Americans, indentured servants, new immigrants, and others. Their stories inform his highly readable narrative of more than two hundred years of American history.

1619

Author : James Horn
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541698800
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book 1619 written by James Horn and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history. In the newly built church at Jamestown, the General Assembly--the first gathering of a representative governing body in America--came together. A few weeks later, a battered privateer entered the Chesapeake Bay carrying the first African slaves to land on mainland English America. In 1619, historian James Horn sheds new light on the year that gave birth to the great paradox of our nation: slavery in the midst of freedom. This portentous year marked both the origin of the most important political development in American history, the rise of democracy, and the emergence of what would in time become one of the nation's greatest challenges: the corrosive legacy of racial inequality that has afflicted America since its beginning.

Re-Forging America

Author : Lorthrop Stoddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Forging America written by Lorthrop Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forging America

Author : Elisa A. Litvin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922481047
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Forging America written by Elisa A. Litvin and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forging America

Author : David Venditta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982942208
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Forging America written by David Venditta and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping narrative history, Forging America chronicles the rise and fall of Bethlehem Steel, beginning with the 19th century Welsh ironmaker who kindled a fire in anthracite-rich eastern Pennsylvania and ending with the second largest U.S. steelmaker's collapse in 2003. Bethlehem Steel was a powerful manifestation of American capitalism. The industrial titan built the Golden Gate Bridge and much of the New York City skyline and stood at the center of defense efforts through two world wars. Along the way, Bethlehem Steel became intertwined with the lives of icons Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Babe Ruth. More than the story of a grand enterprise, Forging America is about its captains and the people who poured their lives and souls into the gritty, dangerous business of making steel.

Forging America's Future

Author : United States. National Commission on Supplies and Shortages. Advisory Committee on National Growth Policy Processes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Forging America's Future written by United States. National Commission on Supplies and Shortages. Advisory Committee on National Growth Policy Processes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forging America's Future

Author : United States. Advisory Committee on National Growth Policy Processes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forging America's Future written by United States. Advisory Committee on National Growth Policy Processes and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immigration Wars

Author : Jeb Bush
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476713464
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Immigration Wars written by Jeb Bush and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immigration debate divides Americans more stridently than ever, due to a chronic failure of national leadership by both parties. Bush and Bolick propose a six-point strategy for reworking our policies that begins with erasing all existing, outdated immigration structures and starting over. Their strategy is guided by two core principles: first, immigration is vital to America's future; second, any enduring resolution must adhere to the rule of law.

Forging Freedom

Author : Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835056
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Forging Freedom written by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, de

Re-forging America

Author : Lothrop Stoddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Re-forging America written by Lothrop Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

First City

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202880
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book First City written by Gary B. Nash and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of the United States, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, were drafted and signed in Philadelphia. The city served off and on as the official capital of the young country until 1800, and was also the site of the first American university, hospital, medical college, bank, paper mill, zoo, sugar refinery, public school, and government mint. In First City, acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash examines the complex process of memory making in this most historic of American cities. Though history is necessarily written from the evidence we have of the past, as Nash shows, rarely is that evidence preserved without intent, nor is it equally representative. Full of surprising anecdotes, First City reveals how Philadelphians—from members of elite cultural institutions, such as historical societies and museums, to relatively anonymous groups, such as women, racial and religious minorities, and laboring people—have participated in the very partisan activity of transmitting historical memory from one generation to the next.

Forging Freedom

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674309333
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Forging Freedom written by Gary B. Nash and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.

Forging People

Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher : Latino Perspectives
ISBN 13 : 9780268029821
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Forging People written by Jorge J. E. Gracia and published by Latino Perspectives. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the USA have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality.

Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor

Author : Richard R. Beeman
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465037828
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor written by Richard R. Beeman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1768, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of America's connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the Declaration of Independence, severing America forever from its mother country. Rush was not alone in his radical decision -- many of those casting their votes in favor of independence did so with a combination of fear, reluctance, and even sadness. In Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor, acclaimed historian Richard R. Beeman examines the grueling twenty-two-month period between the meeting of the Continental Congress on September 5, 1774 and the audacious decision for independence in July of 1776. As late as 1774, American independence was hardly inevitable -- indeed, most Americans found it neither desirable nor likely. When delegates from the thirteen colonies gathered in September, they were, in the words of John Adams, "a gathering of strangers." Yet over the next two years, military, political, and diplomatic events catalyzed a change of unprecedented magnitude: the colonists' rejection of their British identities in favor of American ones. In arresting detail, Beeman brings to life a cast of characters, including the relentless and passionate John Adams, Adams' much-misunderstood foil John Dickinson, the fiery political activist Samuel Adams, and the relative political neophyte Thomas Jefferson, and with profound insight reveals their path from subjects of England to citizens of a new nation. A vibrant narrative, Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor tells the remarkable story of how the delegates to the Continental Congress, through courage and compromise, came to dedicate themselves to the forging of American independence.

Forging America

Author : Steve Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875585939
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Forging America written by Steve Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forging a Nation

Author : Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972565783
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Forging a Nation written by Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence and created a new nation - the United States of America - few colonists-turned-citizens could foresee the great struggles that lay before it in the centuries to come. Forging a Nation explores those struggles--the history of the US--as told through art, artifacts, and archival materials that illuminate some three hundred years of a shared cultural experience.