Deconstructing Europe (1991)
J. G. A. Pocock
History is about process and movement; yet up to now it has taken as given the perspectives furnished by relatively stable geographical communities, of whose pasts, processes leading their presents, history supposed consist. All that may be changing, with advent global village, in which no one's home own; advent, too, a universally imposed alienation, identity predefined either some other's aggression against one, or own someone else, case scheduled for deconstruction. Yet owl Minerva continue fly, long there an ark left fly from; historian, who must today move between points time, recollect voyages, still voyages known recalling how pasts changed presents shifted.
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