Making Whole What Has Been Smashed: On Reparations Politics

by John Torpey

Book Overview

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, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019431
• ISBN13: 9780674019430
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"