History as Mystery

Michael Parenti

City Lights Books, 1999 - 273 strani

Essays on how history's victors distort and suppress the documentary record in order to perpetuate their power and privilege, and how historians are influenced by the professional and class environment in which they work.

"Michael Parenti, always provocative and eloquent, gives us a lively as well as valuable critique of orthodoxy posing as 'history.'"-Howard Zinn

"Solid if surely controversial stuff."-Kirkus

Table of Contents

Prologue: Against the Mainstream
History as Miseducation
Mainstream Orthodoxy
The Hunt for Real History
Textbooks: America the Beautiful
For Business, Against Labor
The School as a Tool
Priests and Pagans, Saints and Slaves
Triumph of the One True Faith
Silencing the Pagans
Accepting the Powers that Be
Affluent Believers
Saints For Slavery
Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews
The Myth of the Devout Peasant
The Curse of Eve
The Burning of Books
Preparing the Holocaust
History in the Faking
Suppression at the Point of Origin
Cold War in the Archives
Classified History, USA
Listening to the Muted Masses
In Ranke's Footsteps
His Majesty's Servant
An ``Aristocratic Profession'
Purging the Reds
Publishing and ``Privishing'
Marketing the Right Stuff
The Strange Death of President Zachary
Taylor, a Study in the Manufacture of
Mainstream History
Examining the Examination
Confrontation with the Slavocracy
A lethal Dose of Cherries and Milk?
Honorable Men and Official History
Against Psychopolitics
Depoliticizing the Political
Dubious Clinical Data
Lenin as Oedipus
The Compulsive Hoover
The Political Hoover
When the Political Becomes Personal
Afterword

Mnenja

HISTORY AS MYSTERY

Uporabnikova ocena  - Kirkus

paper 0-87286-357-3 A somewhat scattered but well-considered manifesto for a history that serves as a weapon —in the age-old war for our intellectual emancipation.— A quarter of college seniors ...

Vsebina

• HISTORY AS MISEDUCATION: 1
• PRIESTS AND PAGANS SAINTS: 35
• BISHOPS AND BARBARIANS JEZEBELS: 77
• HISTORY IN THE FAKING: 129

O avtorju

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.

Bibliografski podatki

• Naslov: History as Mystery; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; History as Mystery, Michael Parenti
• Avtor: Michael Parenti
• Založnik: City Lights Books, 1999
• ISBN: 0872863573, 9780872863576
• Dolžina: 273 strani