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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... national currency itself. They enjoy oligarchic control of the principal technologies of industrial production and mass communication. They and their adjuncts populate the boards of directors (or trustees or regents) of corporations ...
... National Assessment of Educational Programs reveals that 47 percent of the nation's high school juniors do not know that each state has two U.S. senators.18 A 1998 survey reports that nearly 95 percent of U.S. teenagers can name the ...
... national character.”30 In addition, they leave out anything that might reflect badly on the world's dominant politicoeconomic power circles. There is scant mention of the endless succession of injustices and atrocities perpetrated by ...
... national government, none mention that it revealed a need for helping the taxridden, debtridden farmers of Massachusetts whose desperate straits drove them to take up arms. The Whiskey Rebellion is treated in similar fashion, being ...
... National liberation movements, especially those of Latin America, are derided as “Communistic” and “Sovietaided,” the assumption being that anything linked to Communism is evil. Imperialism, a dominant force in world history, is ...