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 bette...
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a In the name of history / |c Joan Wallach Scott. |
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| 490 | 1 | |a The Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series at Central European University, Budapest. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : the "Historical operation", page 1 -- Chapter 1. The Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946, page 7 -- Chapter 2. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1996, page 31 -- Chapter 3. The movement for reparations for slavery in the United States, page 61 -- Epilogue : the "lessons of history", page 95 -- Endnotes, page 105 -- Bibliography, page 117 -- Index, page 125. | |
| 520 | |a "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: the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996, and the ongoing movement for reparations for slavery in the United States. Scott shows how in these cases history was not only used to explain the past but to produce a particular future. Yet both past and future were subject to the political realities of their time and defined in terms of moral absolutes, often leading to deep contradictions. These three instances demonstrate that history is not an impartial truth, rather its very meaning is constructed by those who act in its name."-- |c From Amazon. | ||
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