The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos GeroulanosRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 426 MBOverview: Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory—and, […]
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos Requirements: .ePUB reader, 70.0 MbOverview: An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity―and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others. Books about […]
Transparency in Postwar France: A Critical History of the Present (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Stefanos GeroulanosRequirements: .ePUB reader, 10 MBOverview: This book returns to a time and place when the concept of transparency was met with deep suspicion. It offers a panorama of postwar French thought where attempts to show the perils of […]
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War by Stefanos Geroulanos, Todd MeyersRequirements: .PDF reader, 2 MBOverview: The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound […]