An edition of The monk and his message: undermining the myth of history
(1992)
The monk and his message
undermining the myth of history
by George Woodcock
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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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1992, Douglas & McIntyre
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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.
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