History as Mystery - Brossura

Parenti, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0872863573 ISBN 13: 9780872863576

Casa editrice: City Lights Books, 1999

Riassunto

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

Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, including Against Empire, Dirty Truths, and Blackshirts and Reds. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

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Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leadiing progressive political analysts. He is the author of over 250 published articles and seventeen books. His writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

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In a lively challenge to mainstream historical myths, Michael Parenti shows how history is the winner's story, and historians prisoners of their own professional and class environment. Tackling the myth of the early church as a movement of the poor and a beacon of light in the Dark Ages, he unmasks the church's support for slavery, serfdom, its suppression of learning and culture, and its oppression of heretics, women and Jews. He also exposes the fallacies of psychohistory and psychopolitics, using Lenin and Herbert Hoover as examples.

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• Editore: City Lights Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0872863573
• ISBN 13: 9780872863576
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 273