Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

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Giorgio Agamben, "Ce qui reste d'Auschwitz: L'archive et le témoin"

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Date: 11 May 2020 07:28:14

La recherche ici entreprise dans le village de Homo sacer ne porte pas sur les circonstances historiques dans lesquelles s'est accomplie la destruction des juif d'Europe mais sur la structure et la signification du témoignage. Il s'agit de prendre au sérieux le paradoxe de Primo Levi, selon lequel tout témoignage contient nécessairement une lacune, le témoin intégral étant celui qui ne peut témoigner. Il s'agit de ceux qui " ont touché le fond ", des déportés dont la mort " avait commencé avant la mort corporelle " - bref de tous ceux que, dans le jargon d'Auschwitz, l'on appelait les " musulmans "…

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John Henry Newman: A Very Brief History (Very Brief Histories)

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Date: 11 Jan 2020 06:11:02

'In another world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.'
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1903)

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Iraq: A History (Short Histories)

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Date: 18 Dec 2019 06:19:35

Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law – all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of civilization.

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World War II (Histories of the Unexpected)

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Date: 10 Nov 2019 07:47:43

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.

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The Romans (Histories of the Unexpected)

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Date: 8 Nov 2019 07:23:51

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.

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The Tudors (Histories of the Unexpected)

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Date: 7 Nov 2019 07:04:57

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.

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Japan (Polity Histories)

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Date: 26 Oct 2019 09:28:29

Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful challenges from within and without. How Japan chooses to handle these problems and opportunities will determine its future for decades to come.

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Marvellous Grounds: Queer of Colour Histories of Toronto

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Date: 19 Oct 2019 06:58:52

Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city's rich history of activism by queer and trans people who are Black, Indigenous, or of colour (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and unarchived. While QTBIPOC have a long and visible presence in the city, they always appear as newcomers in queer urban maps and archives in which white queers appear as the only historical subjects imaginable.

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Russia (Polity Histories)

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Date: 9 Oct 2019 07:48:31

Over the past century alone, Russia has lived through great achievements and deepest misery; mass heroism and mass crime; over-blown ambition and near-hopeless despair – always emerging with its sovereignty and its fiercely independent spirit intact.

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