Making whole what has been smashed : on reparations politics / John Torpey.

"This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Torpey, John, 1959-
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	Reparations for historical injustices > Social aspects. Réparations des crimes de l'histoire > Aspect social. Herstelbetalingen. Sociale aspecten. Entschädigung. Internationaler Vergleich. Politik. Reparationen. Versöhnung. Wiedergutmachung. Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Mänskliga rättigheter. Politisk etik. 15.59 history of great parts of the world, peoples, civilizations: other.
Physical Description:	x, 214 pages ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

The surfacing of subterranean history
An anatomy of reparations politics
Commemoration, redress, and reconciliation : the cases of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians
Forty acres : the case of reparations for Black Americans
Post-colonial reparations : reparations politics in post-apartheid Namibia and South Africa.