The Undivided Past

Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. Again and again, categories have been found--religion, nation, class, gender, race, ´civilization´--that have sought to explain world events by fabricating some malevolent or helpless ´other´.
The Undivided Past is an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences - to create an ´us versus them´. Is is above all an appeal to common humanity.