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Cruel Years

- American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

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  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 274 sider

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The Cruel Years provides readers with a vivid picture of what life was like a hundred years ago, not for the rich and famous but for ordinary working Americans. The story is told in the words of twenty-two fascinating people who lived by laboring long hours at farms and factories and mines. A preface by Howard Zinn and an introduction by William Loren Katz provide an easy-to-follow historical map that places these hard-hitting, first-person narratives in the context of their troubled times and within the larger picture of U.S. growth and development. Here are the no-nonsense words of a young immigrant trying to survive as a sweatshop operator in New York City, a hard working farmer's wife who has writing ambitions; a black southern sharecropper seeking fulfillment under a new system of slavery; a young Puerto Rican passing the Statue of Liberty and ready for new challenges; a Chinese immigrant, a Mexican immigrant, and a Japanese immigrant struggling to rise from lower rungs on the social and economic ladder; an Irish girl of sixteen deciding to become a political agitator; a black southern woman trying to fend off the hurts of Jim Crow; a coal miner telling of the lethal dangers of his work; and a black cowhand rejoicing in the thrill of the cattle trails.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal274
  • Udgivelsesdato15-04-2003
  • ISBN139780807054536
  • Forlag Beacon Press (MA)
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt494 g
  • Dybde1,9 cm
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    10 cm
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    15,3 cm
    23,2 cm

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