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American crucible : race and nation in the twentieth century
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American crucible : race and nation in the twentieth century / Gary Gerstle.
ISBN
069104984X (alk. paper)
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.
Physical Description
xv, 454 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-438) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Theodore Roosevelt's racialized nation, 1890-1900
Civic nationalism and its contradictions, 1890-1917
Hardening the boundaries of the nation, 1917-1929
The Rooseveltian nation ascendant, 1930-1940
Good war, race war, 1941-1945
The Cold War, anticommunism, and a nation in flux, 1946-1960
Civil rights, white resistance, and Black nationalism, 1960-1968
Vietnam, cultural revolt, and the collapse of the Rooseveltian nation, 1968-1975
Epilogue: Beyond the Rooseveltian nation, 1975-2000.
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