The United States from Eighteenth Century to Early Twenty-First Century: Anti-Imperialism to Imperialism

This book provides a new perspective on the history of the United States from the eighteenth to the middle of the twenty-first century.It brings together fifteen chapters that engage with the changing contour of the United States, its changing political culture, its internal and international politics, and provides a critique of its democracy.It focuses on the marginalized social groups - indigenous tribes, indentured labor, slaves and immigrants - to understand their role and contributions in the making of the United States.The book examines gender roles, class, race, ethnicity and movement for rights that heralded the beginning of a new political agenda, viz. mobilization of African-Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, the Feminist Movement and New Environmentalism.It also adds to the discussion on major phases of Black history - enslavement, bondage and emancipation, sharecropping and tenancy and the initiation of Black Movement, led and influenced by the political ideology of its