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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... critical reading of these pages. And Beth Garber and Holly Earl rendered additional valuable service. June Felter took the photograph of me that appears on the book cover (as part of her Men In Hats series). I owe all these fine people ...
... critical perceptions to the test of praxis. This I do in chapter six, which at first glance seems to deal with one of those minor and gossipy “who dunnit” questions: Was President Zachary Taylor poisoned? I embarked on that odd inquiry ...
... Critical Lessons from Our Past: Curricula of Socialist Sunday Schools in the United States,” in Michael Apple and Linda ChristianSmith (eds.), The Politics of the Textbook (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), 137. 3. John G. Gager ...
... critically about them, and be able to relate them to broader social relations. If people know little about standard history, they know even less about the silenced, hidden parts of history. More meaningful than remembering the date of ...
... critical perspective and a need to avoid any scrapes with the U.S. capitalist belief system. Loewen notes that textbooks “leave out anything that might reflect badly upon our national character.”30 In addition, they leave out anything ...