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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... history is written and marketed in such a way as to be anything but liberating. The effect is not to enlighten but to ... people of history have struggled for a better life, or how politicoeconomic elites have ruthlessly pursued a ...
... history. If anything, it does battle against a number of massmarketed historical misinterpretations that enjoy wide currency today. I try to address the class biases of the history ... people of color in the United States. Earlier works of ...
... history.” Rather than debating whether it was Christopher Columbus, Lief Ericson, or Amerigo Vespucci who discovered America, real history ... people in ageold civilizations that were in many respects further advanced and more humane than the ...
... history, interested readers might consider Meredith Tax, The Rising of the Women (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1980); Sheila Rowbotham, Hidden from History ... People in the United States, 7 vols. (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1989–94 ...
... peoples of its vast empire forcibly subjugated.8 For the Tory government, maintaining the empire was at least as great an imperative as defeating the Nazis. British leaders seriously considered coming to peace terms with Berlin so that ...