Historical justice in international perspective : how societies are trying to right the wrongs of the past /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
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| Description: | xi, 317 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7469354 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The Politics of Restitution
- 1. An avalanche of history: the 'collapse of the future' and the rise of reparations politics
- 2. Reparations, gender, and ethnicity: why, when and how democratic governments get involved
- Part II. Reparations and Restitution
- 3. Historical continuity and counterfactual history in the debate over reparations for slavery
- 4. Disputed victims: the German discourse on restitution for Nazi victims
- 5. Greenlanders displaced by the Cold War: relocation and compensation
- Part III. Memory and Recognition
- 6. Apology and the past in contemporary France
- 7. Limited rehabilitation? Historical observations on the legal rehabilitation of foreign citizens in today's Russia
- 8. Politics, diplomacy, and accountability in Cambodia: severely limiting personal jurisdiction in prosecution of perpetrators of crimes against humanity
- Part IV. Reconciliation
- 9. Settling histories, unsettling pasts: reconciliation and historical justice in a settler society
- 10. Fitting Aotearoa into New Zealand: politico-cultural change in a modern bicultural nation
- 11. The politics of judging the past: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Part V. Conclusion
- 12. 'The issue that won't go away'
