LONG SHADOWS by Paris, Erna ISBN 0747553998
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Building on conversations with people who have lived that history or who are living with its consequences, this book analyzes examples - from the legacy of American slavery to the 'disappeared' in Argentina and Chile - to investigate the myths nations invent to get past the bad times in history.
In her major new study the historian Erna Paris addresses one of the most urgent issues facing the world today - who owns and controls the past? - for decisions taken by those in power cast long shadows into the future. It is a powerful theme, but what makes her book compelling reading is that she pursues these demanding moral questions as a personal quest, building up the big picture from a series of intimate conversations with people who have lived that history or are living with its consequences. Starting with the aftermath of World War II in France, Germany and Japan, she loops back to the legacy of slavery in the American South, before moving on to South Africa, Bosnia and Rwanda, and to Argentina and Chile as she charts two competing drives - the potentially corrupting desire to control the past in order to shape the future and the aspiration to achieve a standard of universal justice.
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
LONG SHADOWS
[edit] Author
Paris, Erna
[edit] ISBN
0747553998
[edit] Published
20/04/2001
[edit] Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
20 (GBP)
[edit] Typical Price Online
18 (GBP)
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