The Public Life of History: Volume 20

by Bain Attwood, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Claudio Lomnitz

This special issue of Public Culture explores the tension and the challenges raised by the interaction of history with the domains of public life, including politics, the law, and the media. It focuses specifically on situations where a social compact has been reshaped based on the revaluation of historical wounds such as those inflicted in South African apartheid and in the Holocaust. The politics of recognition has challenged historical research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822366878
• ISBN13: 9780822366874
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 8.5"