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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009. Different mirror. Boston : Little, Brown & Co., ©1993 (OCoLC)1249185995 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald T Takaki |
| ISBN: | 0316831123 9780316831123 0316831115 9780316831116 |
| OCLC Number: | 26858126 |
| Description: | ix, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | A different mirror -- Pt. 1: boundlessness -- "Tempest" in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery -- "Giddy multitude": the hidden origins of slavery -- Pt. 2: borders -- Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation -- No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the southwest -- Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a Pacific shore -- Pt. 3: distances -- "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization -- Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- Between "two endless days": the continuous journey to the promised land -- El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America -- To the promised land: blacks in the urban north -- Pt. 4: crossings -- Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century. |
| Responsibility: | Ronald Takaki. |
Abstract:
A presentation of American history from a multi-cultural perspective, focusing on a broader and comparative approach to enhance the possibility of understanding and appreciating America's racial and cultural diversity.
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