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A Past of Possibilities

A History of What Could Have Been

By: Quentin Deluermoz,Pierre Singaravelou

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A Past of Possibilities

A History of What Could Have Been

By: Quentin Deluermoz,Pierre Singaravelou

An exploration of hypothetical turning points in history from Ancient Greece to September 11 What if history, as we know it, had run another course? Touching on alternate histories of the future and the past, or uchronias, A Past of Possibilities encourages deeper consideration of watershed moments in the course of history. Wide-ranging in scope, it examines the Boxer Rebellion in China, the 1848 revolution in France, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and integrates science fiction, history, historiography, sociology, anthropology, and film. In probing the genre of literature and history that is fascinated with hypotheticals surrounding key points in history, Quentin Deluermoz and Pierre Singaravélou reach beyond a mere reimagining of history, exploring the limits and potentials of the futures past. From the most bizarre fiction to serious scientific hypothesis, they provide a survey of the uses of counterfactual histories, methodological issues on the possible in Social Sciences, and practical proposals for using alternate histories in research and the wider public.

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Yale University Press

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030026285X

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9780300262858

Decolonization

Unsung Heroes of the Resistance

By: Pierre Singaravélou,Karim Miské,Marc Ball

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Decolonization

Unsung Heroes of the Resistance

By: Pierre Singaravélou,Karim Miské,Marc Ball

Full of gripping historical vignettes and evocative photographs, an accessible overview of the dynamic figures who resisted colonization, from India, Senegal, and Algeria to Vietnam, Kenya, and Congo. Decolonization started on the very first day of colonization. From the arrival of the Europeans, the peoples of Africa and Asia rose up. No one willingly accepts subjugation, but in order to one day regain freedom, you first and foremost need to stay alive. Faced with the Europeans’ machine guns, the colonized hit back in other ways: from civil disobedience to communist revolution, by way of soccer and literature. It was a struggle marked by infinite patience and unlimited determination, fought by heroic men and women now largely unknown. Condensing a wealth of scholarly research into short, lively chapters, Decolonization brings their extraordinary stories to light: Manikarnika Tambe, the Indian queen who led her troops into battle against the British; Mary Nyanjiru, the Kenyan activist who spearheaded a protest in Nairobi; Lamine Senghor, the Senegalese infantryman who became an anti-colonial militant in Paris; and many more. With them, a current of resistance swept the world, culminating in the independence of almost all the colonies in the 1960s. But at what price? In the atomic India of Indira Gandhi, in the Congo subjected to Mobutu’s dictatorship, or in a London shaken by the rioting of young immigrants, we can see just how crucial it is that we understand and learn from this painful history.

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Other Press, LLC

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1635421039

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9781635421033

Indochina

An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954

By: Pierre Brocheux,Daniel Hémery

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Indochina

An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954

By: Pierre Brocheux,Daniel Hémery

An important, well-conceived, and original piece of historical synthesis."—Peter Zinoman, author of The Colonial Bastille: A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam “Indochina is the first and best general history of French colonial Indochina from its inception in 1858 to its crumbling in 1954. It is the only work to avoid nationalist, colonialist, and anticolonialist historiographies in order to fully explore the ambiguity of the French colonial period. A major contribution to the national histories of France, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.”—Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec à Montréal

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Univ of California Press

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0520269748

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9780520269743

A Past of Possibilities

A History of What Could Have Been

By: Quentin Deluermoz,Pierre Singaravelou

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A History of What Could Have Been

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Decolonization

Unsung Heroes of the Resistance

By: Pierre Singaravélou,Karim Miské,Marc Ball

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Unsung Heroes of the Resistance

By: Pierre Singaravélou,Karim Miské,Marc Ball

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Vacillations

By: Emile M. Cioran,Pierre Alechinsky

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Vacillations

By: Emile M. Cioran,Pierre Alechinsky

Cioran avait peu de goût pour la peinture, et n'avait jamais fait de livres illustrés. En 1979, persuadé par son éditeur, il tente l'aventure avec P. Alechinsky et lui propose une trentaine de pages d'aphorismes. Le peintre y répondit par 32 lithographies en couleurs. Cette édition propose en accompagnement des textes, une impression en sanguine du premier état monochrome des lithographies.

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2851944533

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L'énergie humaine

By: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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L'énergie humaine

By: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Par Energie Humaine, j'entends ici la portion toujours croissante de l'énergie cosmique actuellement soumise à l'influence reconnaissable des centres d'activité humaine. A l'état élémentaire (c'est-à-dire considérée à l'intérieur et autour d'un élément humain isolé), cette énergie " hominisée " se présente sous trois formes (...) - L'énergie incorporée est celle que la lente évolution biologique de la Terre a graduellement accumulée et harmonisée dans notre organisme de chair et de nerfs : l'étonnante " machine naturelle " du corps humain. - L'énergie contrôlée est celle que, à partir de ses membres, l'Homme parvient ingénieusement à dominer autour de lui d'un pouvoir physique, au moyen des " machines artificielles ". - L'énergie spiritualisée, enfin, est celle qui, localisée dans les zones immanentes de notre activité libre, forme l'étoffe de nos intellections, affections, volitions : énergie probablement impondérable, mais énergie bien réelle cependant, puisqu'elle opère une prise de possession réfléchie et passionnée des choses et de leurs rapports. Tout se passe en somme comme si chaque individu humain représentait un noyau cosmique de nature spéciale, rayonnant autour de soi des ondes d'organisation et d'éveil au sein de la matière. Un tel noyau, pris avec son auréole d'animation, voilà l'unité d'Energie Humaine.

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2020526433

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A Past of Possibilities

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A Past of Possibilities

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Vacillations

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