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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... evidence. In contrast, orthodoxy can rest on its own unstated axioms and mystifications, remaining heedless of marginalized critics who are denied a means of reaching mass audiences. Orthodoxy promotes its views through the unexamined ...
... evidence and investigation raised by the case. Sometimes an event in history wins our attention not solely because of its generalizable significance but because of its inviting singularity. In addition, the Taylor case is a perfect ...
... evidence, the editing of sources, and related activities is made by J. H. Hexter, Doing History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1971), 15. For the present discussion, research and writing can be treated as part of the same ...
... .”14 And Gibbon claims that many Gentile spectators were converted by the enthusiasm of the condemned proselytes; “the blood of the martyrs . . . became the seed of the church.”15 What evidence we have would seem to indicate something less.
Michael Parenti. What evidence we have would seem to indicate something less inspirational. While kept vividly alive in the modern imagination by popular novels like Ben Hur and ... evidence of a public outcry of any sort to stop the.