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.
发表于2025-03-29
A People's History of the United States 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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...
评分《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...
评分两个多月读完Howard Zinn的《A People's History of the United States》(中文有霍华德·津恩《美国人民的历史》,上海人民出版社,许先春译,2001年出版),本来想写一篇完整的读后感,但在看了王缉思《<美国人民的历史>序》之后,感觉不能超过,就只谈一点他人没有谈到的想...
评分http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html 虽然没有图片,地图和讨论专区。但是基本讲解内容和书上一致。喜欢了解历史的朋友可以翻阅下。
评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...
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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.
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开国之父们设计的制度潜藏着很大的不公,平权运动忽视底层的利益,越战不是由意识形态而起而是觊觎越南的资源。。总之政府专做坏事,人民恒受压迫。这些“立场”鲜明的结论对中国人来讲早就耳熟能详了,因此阅读时并没有美国读者感受到的那种冲击力。本书最大的问题是选取材料时极具偏向性,为了政治正确而简化了问题,也使他的分析不可信赖。能够理解70年代出版时具有很大的意义,但本身不是好的历史著作。
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评分读这本书的时候不停的reflect那本Guns Germs and Steel,两者结合起来还真是有趣
评分本书一言以蔽之:被驱逐的印第安人,被奴役的黑人,被剥削的穷困白人,被歧视的女性,被轰炸的外国人,统统起来反抗吧,推翻万恶的美国政府吧!这书的共产主义倾向太强,因此不适合作为美国历史的启蒙读物,但有助于理解美国社会的阶级性(全人类都一样),领会财富和权力的分配机制,以及吸收人道主义精神(作者真的好圣父)。Anyway,期待中译本的到来……七百多页的英文啃了一个多月才完,再重来一遍我会疯掉的LOL。
评分读这本书的时候不停的reflect那本Guns Germs and Steel,两者结合起来还真是有趣
A People's History of the United States 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书