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 early twenty-first century.It brings together 15 chapters that engage with the changing contour of the United States, its changing political culture, and its internal and international politics, and provides a critique of its democracy.It focuses on 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 the movements for rights that heralded the beginning of a new political agenda, viz. the 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 the Black Movement, led and influenced by the political ideology of its le