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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... Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson (New York: McGrawHill, 1976), 295. 6. I deal with imperialism's mistreatment of Latin America, Asia, and Africa in Against Empire (San Francisco: City Lights Books ...
... crimes but almost never go to prison. They raid the public treasury for corporate welfare subsidies, for risk capital, bailout capital, export capital, research and development capital, promotional capital, and equity capital. They ...
... crimes also are whitewashed in mainstream narratives. Other underplayed parts of North American history would include the early agrarian rebellions, the industrial class struggles of the last two centuries, the suppression of radical ...
... crimes including CIAsponsored political assassination campaigns (Operation Phoenix). Nor did the texts mention the politicoeconomic considerations behind U.S. interventionism, the significance of the antiwar movement at home and U.S. ...
... crimes perpetrated by anarchists, communists, and other revolutionaries. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965). See the critical remarks in Sender Garlin, Three ...