History as MysteryCity Lights Publishers, 22. avg. 2016 - 304 strani In a lively challenge to mainstream history, Michael Parenti does battle with a number of mass-marketed historical myths. He shows how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege. And he demonstrates how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work. Pursuing themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history books, History as Mystery demonstrates how past and present can inform each other and how history can be a truly exciting and engaging subject. "Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as 'history.'"—Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "Deserves to become an instant classic."—Bertell Ollman, author of Dialectical Investigations "Those who keep secret the past, and lie about it, condemn us to repeat it. Michael Parenti unveils the history of falsified history, from the early Christian church to the present: a fascinating, darkly revelatory tale."—Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers "Solid if surely controversial stuff."—Kirkus |
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... Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters and published at the City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Gary Aguilar, Charles Briody, Lauren Coodley, Charlotte Dennett, Elazar.
Michael Parenti. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. Gary Aguilar, Charles Briody, Lauren Coodley, Charlotte Dennett, Elazar Friedman, Leonard Pitt, Sally Soriano, Vincent Sauvé, and my son Christian Parenti furnished me with pertinent materials, as did the ...
... Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884). Polybius, Histories I.l. This work is available in a 1979 Penguin Classics edition entitled The Rise of the Roman Empire. For a discussion of Eurocentrism and imperialism, see Samir Amin, Eurocentrism ...
... Charles Steinmetz, Albert Parsons, Jacob Coxey, W. E. B. Du Bois, Big Bill Haywood, Clarence Darrow, Mother Jones, Joe Hill, William Z. Foster, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Emma Goldman. Morison offers a representative example of the ...
... Charles Beard, was interrogated and, as he tells it, ordered “to warn all other men in my department against teachings 'likely to inculcate disrespect for American institutions.'” Beard described the trustees and Columbia's president ...