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a brief thread in case others are interested 1/ #twitterstorians https://twitter.com/davidastinwalsh/status/1385569379258191875
PS these aren’t in order of preference, just random 2/
John Hall, APOCALYPSE 3/ https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745645087
and @j_t_palmer APOCALYPSE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (obviously period specific but has good intro thoughts) 4/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/apocalypse-in-the-early-middle-ages/ECDA878A3766A66A2F4B8A5D44443946
Stephen O’Leary ARGUING THE APOCALYPSE (love this book) 5/ https://global.oup.com/academic/product/arguing-the-apocalypse-9780195121254?cc=us&lang=en&
John Gray BLACK MASS 6/ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531522
Himmelfarb APOCALYPSE 7/ https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Apocalypse%3A+A+Brief+History-p-9781405113465
and @Matt_A_Sutton AMERICAN APOCALYPSE 8/ https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975439
there are of course many more articles and shorter pieces too. hope these are useful #twitterstorians 9/9
I should add too that “apocalypse” is often conflated with “disaster” (such as nuclear war) and that’s indeed fair but the books above are more expansive on the idea of “apocalypse” as transformation and revelation. 10/9
see for example this thread 11/9 https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1246087276783964161
