These Truths
Subtitle: A History of the United States
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 960
ISBN-13: 9780393635256
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: United states, history; United states, politics and government; Civil rights, united states
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The question stated --; title: Part one: The idea (1492-1799). The nature of the past ; The rulers and the ruled ; Of wars and revolutions ; The constitution of a nation --; title: Part two: The people (1800-1865). A democracy of numbers ; The soul and the machine ; Of ships and shipwrecks ; The face of battle --; title: Part three: The state (1866-1945). Of citizens, persons, and people ; Efficiency and the masses ; A constitution of the air ; The brutality of modernity --; title: Part four: The machine (1946-2016). A world of knowledge ; Rights and wrongs ; Battle lines ; r America, disrupted --