POLS 3560 Lecture Notes - Walter Rodney, Henry Kissinger, George Orwell
26 Mar 2014
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Pols 3560 fall/winter 2011/2012 ananya mukherjee-reed. Lecture 5 history: mainstream vs. critical perspectives oct 18. George orwell whoever controls the past controls the future and whoever controls the present controls the past". History is the memory of states henry kissinger. Zinn: he tells the history of 19th century europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of austria and england. Europe had before the french revolution was restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in england, farmers in. My viewpoint, in telling the history of the united states, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. ".
