Thus Erased From the Record: On the People Power Erased, and the Silence We Agreed to Keep - Couverture souple

Zhao, Casper

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798185666234

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

History remembers the victors. This book asks a darker question. Who decides what survives at all?

Some people are killed but remembered, but others are erased.

Their names disappear from photographs. Their inventions are credited to someone else. Their emails vanish after layoffs. Their contributions become "team efforts." Their companies remove them from the website. Their memories survive only in the stories other people refuse to forget.

Thus Erased From the Record is a gripping work of narrative nonfiction exploring one of civilization's oldest forms of power: the ability to remove someone from history without ever denying they existed.

Blending history, psychology, corporate culture, philosophy, and modern technology, Casper Zhao traces the hidden mechanics of erasure across empires, corporations, governments, and institutions.

Inside you'll discover:

• The forgotten empress whose existence was reconstructed from the names of her sons

• Why Roman damnatio memoriae was more sophisticated than simple destruction

• How Stalin's photo editors rewrote history one negative at a time

• Why ownership, not truth, often determines who receives credit

• The modern workplace techniques that quietly erase careers without firing a single shot

• Why AI and digital systems make institutional memory simultaneously more permanent and more fragile

• The final and most devastating form of erasure: becoming perfectly remembered—and still replaceable

This is not merely a history book.

It is an investigation into memory itself.

As organizations become increasingly digital, as artificial intelligence generates our documents, manages our records, and shapes collective memory, the question becomes more urgent than ever:

Who controls the archive controls the future.

For readers of The Righteous Mind, The Psychology of Money, Sapiens, The Devil in the White City, and intellectually driven narrative nonfiction that combines history with contemporary relevance.

Because sometimes history is not written by the winners.

Sometimes it is written by whoever deleted the evidence.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798185666234
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 299
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg