In the Name of History / / Joan Wallach Scott.
In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name—"in the name of history." Scott investigates three different instances in which repudiation of the past was conceived as a way to a better future...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (140 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction The “Historical Operation”
- Chapter 1. The Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946
- Chapter 2. South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996)
- Chapter 3. The Movement for Reparations for Slaver y in the United States
- Epilogue. The “Lessons of History”
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index