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

1st Edition

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

By Meena Bhargava Copyright 2027
690 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

690 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

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 –... Read more

1. The Beginnings of a New World 2. The American Revolution 3. Evolution of Democracy: Limitations and Inequities 4. Makings of Capitalism: Inequality and Subordination 5. Quest for International Dominance in the Antebellum Years 6. The Economics of Slavery 7. Changing Contour: The Civil War 8. The Politics of Reconstruction 9. The Gilded Age: Capitalism, Economic and Social Inequalities 10.  Reformism vs Resistance 11. Gender Roles 12.  The Movement for Rights: African-Americans, Civil Rights, Environmentalism 13. Imperialism and World Politics 14. Growing Imperialism and Entanglement 15. Toward New Imperialism

 

Biography

Meena Bhargava taught History at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, India. She is a historian of medieval and early modern South Asia. Her areas of research include Mughal history, agrarian history, and land rights in eighteenth-and nineteenth century India, environmental history and history of narcotics and drugs. Her most recent publications include the co-edited volume The Early Modern in South Asia: Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History (2022).

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