| Description |
xxi, 273 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. History as Miseducation. Mainstream Orthodoxy. The Hunt for Real History. Textbooks: America the Beautiful. For Business, Against Labor. The School as a Tool -- 2. 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 -- 3. Bishops and Barbarians, Jezebels and Jews. The Myth of the Devout Peasant. The Curse of Eve. The Burning of Books. Preparing the Holocaust -- 4. History in the Faking. Suppression at the Point of Origin. Cold War in the Archives. Classified History, USA. Listening to the Muted Masses -- 5. In Ranke's Footsteps. His Majesty's Servant. An "Aristocratic Profession" Purging the Reds. Publishing and "Privishing" Marketing the Right Stuff -- 6. 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? |
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Honorable Men and Official History -- 7. Against Psychopolitics. Depoliticizing the Political. Dubious Clinical Data. Lenin as Oedipus. The Compulsive Hoover. The Political Hoover. When the Political Becomes Personal |
| Summary |
"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." "History as Mystery pursues themes ranging from antiquity to modern times, from the Inquisition and Joan of Arc to the anti-labor bias of present-day history textbooks. Parenti challenges the image of early Christianity as a movement for the poor and a beacon of light in the Dark Ages. He unmasks the Church's support of slavery and serfdom, its suppression of learning and culture, and its oppression of heretics, women, and Jews."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
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Historiography.
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| LC no. |
99034698 |
| ISBN |
0872863573 |
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0872863646 |
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