Public Life of History

Informationen zum Autor Bain Attwood is Associate Professor of History at Monash University.Dipesh Chakrabarty is Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.Claudio Lomnitz is William H. Rainsford Professor of Anthropology and Director for the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is also editor of Public Culture. Klappentext This issue explores the challenges raised by the interaction of history with public life, specifically focusing on situations where social compacts are reshaped based on revaluation of historical wounds. Zusammenfassung 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. This book focuses 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.

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• Authors: Bain Attwood, Bain Chakrabarty Attwood, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Claudio Lomnitz, Claudio Chakrabarty Lomnitz
• Assisted by: Bain Attwood (Editor), Dipesh Chakrabarty (Editor), Claudio Lomnitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2008
• EAN: 9780822366874
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6687-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Public Culture; Public Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education