actments of soldier an

d historian produce a peculiar inversion of normative expectation. The soldier enacts the "new" conquest by performing history, by restoring and restaging the behaviors of those who produced conquest wh

en it was

• still na
• med and va
• lued as such. Only by
• repeating and revisitin
• g that past does this conq

uest come

• into its own present
• . The historian, in
• turn, produces the N