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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... conservatives as “revisionism.” To use “revisionism” as an epithet is to say that there is no room for historical reinterpretation, that the standard version is objective and factual, and that any departure from it can only be ...
... conservatives who seek to control what is taught in them. Consider what happened to one of the few progressive ... conservative groups could tolerate. Their campaign against Rugg's books proved successful enough to cause a drop in ...
... conservative centrist view of the world. But such a view is not conservative enough for the rightists, who consider anything to the left of themselves as “liberal,” and anything liberal as ideologically contaminated. Curriculum disputes ...
... conservative religionists consider unacceptable values and profanity found in fictional writings used in high school courses. Fewer controversies focus on history curricula because most of the history taught is already of the ...
... conservative historian Elizabeth FoxGenovese gives credence to another specious, timeworn notion: “[I]t was in Christianity that the concept of individual freedom originated.”53 In fact, long before Christ, during the Roman Republic and ...