"History Lessons" offers a light-hearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004, this book gives a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. Heralded as "timely and important" ("History News Network"), "History Lessons" includes sections from Russia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Canada and others, covering such events as the American Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Korean War - providing an alternative history of the United States from the Viking Explorers to the post-Cold War era. By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events, "History Lessons" affords us a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world learns about America's past.
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Offering a challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history, this book gives a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. It also includes sections from Russia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Canada and others.
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"The American invaders...accompanied by their puppets, finally waged the war...The bastards who crossed the 38th parallel at dawn were stoking the flames of war, jumping around like mad men, yearning to invade the North." - North Korean textbook on the Korean War "A provocative, timely and surprisingly readable book." - WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD"
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781565848948
Publisert
2004-06
Utgiver
Vendor
The New Press
Vekt
807 gr
Høyde
248 mm
Bredde
171 mm
Dybde
44 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
432

Biographical note

Dana Lindaman is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Philology at Harvard University, focusing on the formation of French identity in secondary school textbooks. Kyle Ward is assistant professor of history and political science at Vincennes University in Indiana. He is the author of In the Shadow of Glory.