Genocide, Collective Violence, and Popular Memory : The Politics of Rememberance in the Twentieth Century

1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo xxxiii + 258pp., b/w plates, notes, reading list, The 20th century has been scarred by political violence and genocide, reaching its extreme in the Holocaust. Yet, at the same time, the century has been marked by a growing commitment to human rights. Highlights the importance of history-of socially processed memory-in resolving the wounds left by massive state-sponsored political violence and in preventing future episodes of violence.