Historical Justice in International Perspective
How Societies Are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past
Manfred Berg editor Bernd Schaefer editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:27th Oct '08
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This book's essays analyze a broad array of case studies dealing with redress of historical injustices.
This book makes a valuable contribution to recent debates on redress for historical injustices, offering a broad array of case studies from nine different countries on five continents. Its essays highlight the diversity of claims and movements and of the ways in which societies have tried to right past wrongs.This book makes a valuable contribution to debates on redress for historical injustices by offering case studies from nine countries on five continents. The contributors examine the problems of material restitution, criminal justice, apologies, recognition, memory and reconciliation in national contexts as well as from a comparative perspective. Among the topics discussed are the claims for reparations for slavery in the United States, West German restitution for the Holocaust, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the efforts to prosecute the perpetrators of the Khmer Rouge's mass murders in Cambodia and the struggles of the indigenous people of Australia and New Zealand. The book highlights the diversity of the ways societies have tried to right past wrongs as the demand for historical justice has become universal.
"...this collection makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on historical justice, which is precisely what it sets out to do." -Sarah Pinto, Canadian Journal of History
ISBN: 9780521876834
Dimensions: 236mm x 156mm x 25mm
Weight: 580g
332 pages