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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... Christian Parenti furnished me with pertinent materials, as did the reference staff at the Berkeley (California) Public Library. Peggy Karp critiqued the manuscript and also provided valuable research assistance for chapter six. Nancy J ...
... Christianity, a subject that usually receives little attention. Additional attention is given to how history is marketed, the systems of suppression and distribution, and how historians are influenced by the class environment in.
... 137. 3. John G. Gager, The Origins of AntiSemitism: Attitudes Toward Judaism in Pagan and Christian Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), 265. 4. Quoted in George Zabiskie Gray, The Children's Crusade (New.
... Christian Saints (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1992); Linda Grant DePauw, Founding Mothers: Women in the Revolutionary Era (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975); Susan Ware, Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal (Cambridge, Mass ...
... Christian Europe (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 9. Leopold von Ranke, History of England, Principally in the Seventeeth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1875), I, v. Leopold von Ranke, Universal History (New York: Charles ...