Politics And The Past

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585455066
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Past written by John Torpey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics' has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of international affairs in coming years. In addition to broad theoretical and philosophical reflection, the book includes discussions of the politics of reparations in specific countries and regions, including the United States, France, Latin America, Japan, Canada, and Rwanda. The volume presents a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective on the many campaigns for reparations currently afoot in a variety of contexts around the world. All readers working or teaching in the fields of transitional justice, the politics of memory, and social movements will find this book a rich and provocative contribution to this complex debate.

Author : Wendy Brown
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118805X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics Out of History written by Wendy Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alekse? I. Miller
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 615522515X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Convolutions of Historical Politics written by Alekse? I. Miller and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen essays by scholars from seven countries discuss the political use and abuse of history in the recent decades with particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia as case studies), but also includes articles on Germany, Japan and Turkey, which provide a much needed comparative dimension. The main focus is on new conditions of political utilization of history in post-communist context, which is characterized by lack of censorship and political pluralism. The phenomenon of history politics became extremely visible in Central and Eastern Europe in the past decade, and remains central for political agenda in many countries of the regions. Each essay is a case study contributing to the knowledge about collective memory and political use of history, offering a new theoretical twist. The studies look at actors (from political parties to individual historians), institutions (museums, Institutes of National remembrance, special political commissions), methods, political rationale and motivations behind this phenomenon.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521000437
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Illusion in Politics written by Raymond Geuss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically the central topics in Western political thought. In a series of analytic chapters he discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitmacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state committed to the defense of human rights is in fact a confused conjunction of disparate elements. This is a profound and concise essay on the basic structure of contemporary politics, written throughout in voice that is skeptical, engaged, and clear.

Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845455330
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Politics with History written by Andrew Beattie and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ensuing debates and disagreements over the recent past, examined by the author, open up a window into the wider development of German memory, identity, and politics after the end of the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : K. Erekson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137008946
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the History Curriculum written by K. Erekson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politicians and pastors who revised the Texas social studies standards made worldwide headlines. Politics and the History Curriculum sets the debate over the Texas standards within a broad context of politics, religion, media, and education, providing a clear analysis of these events and recommendations for teachers and policy makers.

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Past written by John Torpey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a nuanced, historically grounded, and critical perspective, this book presents a multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices.

Author : Paul Pierson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841089
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Time written by Paul Pierson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing politics in time--constructing "moving pictures" rather than snapshots--can vastly enrich our understanding of complex social dynamics, and greatly improve the theories and methods that we use to explain them. Politics in Time opens a new window on the temporal aspects of the social world. It explores a range of important features and implications of evolving social processes: the variety of processes that unfold over significant periods of time, the circumstances under which such different processes are likely to occur, and above all, the significance of these temporal dimensions of social life for our understanding of important political and social outcomes. Ranging widely across the social sciences, Pierson's analysis reveals the high price social science pays when it becomes ahistorical. And it provides a wealth of ideas for restoring our sense of historical process. By placing politics back in time, Pierson's book is destined to have a resounding and enduring impact on the work of scholars and students in fields from political science, history, and sociology to economics and policy analysis.

Author : Anne Orford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480942
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Law and the Politics of History written by Anne Orford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

Author : Michael D. Hattem
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300256051
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Past and Prologue written by Michael D. Hattem and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American colonists reinterpreted their British and colonial histories to help establish political and cultural independence from Britain In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’ changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Americans stopped thinking of the British past as their own history and created a new historical tradition that would form the foundation for what subsequent generations would think of as “American history.” This change was a crucial part of the cultural transformation at the heart of the Revolution by which colonists went from thinking of themselves as British subjects to thinking of themselves as American citizens. Rather than liberating Americans from the past—as many historians have argued—the Revolution actually made the past matter more than ever. Past and Prologue shows how the process of reinterpreting the past played a critical role in the founding of the nation.