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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... recording of history has been monopolized by the privileged few. I make no attempt at being comprehensive in my coverage. Two whole chapters treat the darker side of Christianity, a subject that usually receives little attention ...
... recording of it.1 However, the distinction is not an absolute one. For those who write history help influence the course of events by shaping our understanding of things past and present. Conversely, those who actively participate in a ...
... Record Office, he realized that much of the account had been oversimplified or omitted, and that Churchill's history “despite all its virtues . . . is a politician's memoir designed to relate his version of events and to present the ...
... record that a tiny portion of the population controls the lion's share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media. And while not ...
... hegemony. Under such arrangements, real history is among the first casualties. NOTES: 1. For a discussion of the distinction between history as a social process and 10. the recording of history, see MichelRolph Trouillot, Silencing the.