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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... Review Press, 1980); Sheila Rowbotham, Hidden from History: Rediscovering Women in History from the 17th Century to the Present (London: Pluto Press, 1973); Elise Boulding, The Underside of History: A View of Women Through Time, vol. 2 ...
... Review Press, 1989). I have dealt with the colonization and forced maldevelopment of the Third World in my book The Sword and the Dollar and to some extent in Against Empire. For other works on that subject, see L. S. Stavrianos, Global ...
... Review Press, 1978), 273. 7. Clive Ponting, 1940: Myth and Reality (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1991), 1. Not everyone is of this opinion. John Keegan for one, being nowhere as critical of Tory leaders as he is of popular revolutionaries ...
... Review, April 27, 1997, 30. Harvey Kaye wrote an essay directed at the subject of how and why ruling interests in society try to control the production of history, but he makes only passing mention of capitalist societies and Nazi ...
... Review 100 (June 1995): 843 and passim; also Gary B. Nash, “The History Children Should Study,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 21, 1995: A60. Paul Goldstein, Changing the American Schoolbook (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1978), 1 ...