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Historical redress : must we pay for the past? /

Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal peoples whom they dispossessed? Should Israel have accepted Germany's compensation for Nazi extermination policies?  The last twenty years have s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vernon, Richard, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England ; New York : Continuum, 2012.
Colección:Think now.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Does the past have rights?
  • Why rights matter
  • The testamentary model
  • Our interests survive us
  • Can the dead be harmed?
  • Posthumous rights and cold cases
  • The 'too abstract' objection
  • 2 Who benefits?
  • Does anyone benefit?
  • Does injustice pay?
  • Baseline issues
  • Do benefits create duties?
  • Unjust Enrichment
  • Is redress the right response?
  • 3 What memory calls for
  • Kinds of memory
  • What truth commissions can do
  • Public apology
  • From apology to identity
  • 4 Because we are who we are
  • Relationship terms
  • Nation, or state?
  • Complicity
  • Political continuity
  • 5 Back to the future
  • Inherited wrongs
  • The lynching of Louis Sam
  • Why history matters
  • Ants and grasshoppers
  • On clarity.