In the Name of History

by 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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9633863481
• ISBN13: 9789633863480
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher