Politics and the past : on repairing historical injustices

Torpey, John C. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0742517985 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742517993 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Politics and the Past / John Torpey -- Pt. I. Historical and Theoretical Considerations on the Spread of Reparations Politics -- 1. Politics of Regret: Analytical Frames / Jeffrey K. Olick and Brenda Coughlin -- 2. Coming to Terms with the Past / Alan Cairns -- 3. Restitution and Amending Historical Injustices in International Morality / Elazar Barkan -- 4. Reflections on Reparations / Roy L. Brooks -- Pt. II. Reparations Politics: Case Studies -- 5. Calculating Slavery Reparations: Theory, Numbers, and Implications / Dalton Conley -- 6. War Compensation: Claims against the Japanese Government and Japanese Corporations for War Crimes / Laura Hein -- 7. Negotiating New Relationships: Canadian Museums, First Nations, and Cultural Property / Ruth B. Phillips and Elizabeth Johnson -- 8. Is Truth Enough? Reparations and Reconciliation in Latin America / Sharon F. Lean -- 9. Moral Integrity and Reparations for Africa / Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann -- 10. Wealth of Nations: Aboriginal Treaty Making in the Era of Globalization / R. S. Ratner, William K. Carroll and Andrew Woolford -- 11. Victims of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, and War Crimes in Rwanda: The Legal and Institutional Framework of Their Right to Reparation / Stef Vandeginste -- Pt. III. Judging the Past -- 12. Justice, History, and Memory in France: Reflections on the Papon Trial / Henry Rousso -- 13. Overcoming the Past? Narrative and Negotiation, Remembering, and Reparation: Issues at the Interface of History and the Law / Charles S. Maier.