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In this iconoclastic study of historians and their works over the past two thousand years, George Woodcock sets out to examine and undermine the conventions by which much history has been written. There is a lesson here for Canadians in our time of national crisis. As the peoples of Eastern Europe have taught us, we have nothing to lose in the echoing streets but our fears; and we have a world of our own to gain. - Back cover.

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Douglas & McIntyre
Language
English
Pages
212

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Subjects
Historiography, Errors, inventions, History, Historiographie, Geschichtsschreibung, Erreurs, inventions, Histoire

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Table of Contents

Introduction : The reconstruction of history
The monk and his message
Necessary lies : the birth of history
Plato : history and the utopian vision
Passage from Asia
Kingdoms of God on earth
Destiny as progress
Hegel and the hinge of history
Marx inventing the spectre
Lenin : terror as the servant and master of history
Rival destinies : the totalitarians try to create history in the 1930s
War as the machine of history
The failure of fear
Export communism
The monolith lurches
The negation of ideology
Miraculous years
The possibility of the impossible
The monk's message vindicated
The local and the particular in true history
Zeroing in : Canada's impossible possibilities

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Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
907/.2
Library of Congress
D13 .W68 1992

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
212 p. ;
Number of pages
212
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1325461M
Internet Archive
monkhismessageun0000wood
ISBN 10
155054005X
LCCN
92203361
Library Thing
115661
Goodreads
3062725

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