"From an award-winning historian, a groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. An...

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1. Verfasser:	Johnson, Walter 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Basic Books 2021
Ausgabe:	First trade paperback edition
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1804-2014 Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis (Mo.) / History African Americans / Missouri / Saint Louis / History Saint Louis (Mo.) / Race relations / History HISTORY / United States / 19th Century African Americans Race relations Missouri / Saint Louis History
Zusammenfassung:	"From an award-winning historian, a groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike -- a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States."--
Beschreibung:	updated with a new coda (from the cover)
Beschreibung:	xii, 531 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits 25 cm
ISBN:	9780465064267