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History, Empathy and Conflict - Heroes, Victims and Victimisers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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History, Empathy and Conflict - Heroes, Victims and Victimisers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a
silent revolution from emphasising history's heroes to its victims.
While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth
century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are
named after the victims of violence. Where war reports used to
focus on the leadership of the generals and the bravery of the
troops, now they are mostly about casualties, refugees and
destruction. History, Empathy and Conflict examines the diplomatic
consequences of such a revolution in sensibility. Many governments
have responded by apologising for their country's historic actions.
History teaching in schools has sometimes been revised to reflect
the new emphasis and to build confidence between nations and
respect for domestic minorities. Not least of the reasons for these
changes is the difficulty or impossibility of making restitution
for past wrongs. But history can also be used by the media and
governments to justify intervention to protect victims of civil
wars only to come to be seen as victimisers themselves. The past is
always difficult to interpret but is the basis of all our decisions
and all institutions try to twist it to their own convenience.
Sympathy with history's victims is a great moral advance but it can
be used by dissatisfied nations to justify their revisionist
policies and with the election of President Trump in 2016, all the
Great Powers claim to be history's victims.
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