140 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Introduction: The Historical Operation, Chapter 1. The Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946, Chapter 2. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1996, Chapter 3. The Movement for Reparations for Slavery in the United States, Epilogue: The Lessons of History, Endnotes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Joan Wallach Scott is professor emerita in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
