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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... John Miller, Big Fish Book design: Nancy J. Peters Typography: Harvest Graphics Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Parenti, Michael, 1933– History as mystery / by Michael Parenti. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references ...
... our martyrs from Haymarket to Attica to the redwoods of California ripped whole from our hearts, erased from official memory . . . —John Ross, “Against Amnesia” CONTENTS PROLOGUE: AGAINST THE MAINSTREAM 1 HISTORY AS MISEDUCATION Mainstream.
... John Gager, “is created for us largely by history's winners. The voices of the losers, when heard at all, are transmitted through a carefully tuned network of filters.”3 Here I endeavor to deconstruct some of the filters, to show that ...
... : Routledge, 1991), 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.
... John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1967); Staughton Lynd, Class Conflict, Slavery and the United States Constitution (Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1976); Nell Irvin Painter, The Narrative of Hosea Hudson ...