The monk and his message
Subtitle: undermining the myth of history
By: George Woodcock.
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Historiography; History -- Errors, inventions, etc
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The reconstruction of history; title: The monk and his message; title: Necessary lies : the birth of history; title: Plato : history and the utopian vision; title: Passage from Asia; title: Kingdoms of God on earth; title: Destiny as progress; title: Hegel and the hinge of history; title: Marx inventing the spectre; title: Lenin : terror as the servant and master of history; title: Rival destinies : the totalitarians try to create history in the 1930s; title: War as the machine of history; title: The failure of fear; title: Export communism; title: The monolith lurches; title: The negation of ideology; title: Miraculous years; title: The possibility of the impossible; title: The monk's message vindicated; title: The local and the particular in true history; title: Zeroing in : Canada's impossible possibilities