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What lessons can we learn from history, and more importantly: how?
This question is as commonplace as it is essential. Efficient
transitional justice policy evaluation requires, inter alia, an
historical dimension. What policy has or has not worked in the past
is an obvious key question. Nevertheless, history as a profession
remains somewhat absent in the multi-disciplinary field of
transitional justice. The idea that we should learn lessons from
history continues to create unease among most professional
historians. In his critical introduction, the editor investigates
the framework of this unease. At the core of this book are nine
national European case studies (post 1945, the 1970s dictatorships,
post 1989) which implement the true scholarly advantage of
historical research for the field of transitional justice: the
broad temporal space. All nine case studies tackle the longer-term
impact of their country's transitional justice policies. Two
comparative conclusions, amongst others by the internationally
renowned transitional justice specialist Luc Huyse, complete this
collection. This volume is a major contribution in the search for
synergies between the agenda of historical research and the rapidly
developing field of transitional justice.
This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities
of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe
under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced
into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide
good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain
personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as
national systems underwent authoritarian reform and
collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments
were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and
repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the
realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics
such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the
repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war
purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration,
resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.
This handbook provides the first systematic integrated analysis of
the role that states or state actors play in the construction of
history and public memory after 1945. The book focuses on many
different forms of state-sponsored history, including memory laws,
monuments and memorials, state-archives, science policies, history
in schools, truth commissions, historical expert commissions, the
use of history in courts and tribunals etc. The handbook
contributes to the study of history and public memory by combining
elements of state-focused research in separate fields of study. By
looking at the state's memorialising capacities the book introduces
an analytical perspective that is not often found in classical
studies of the state. The handbook has a broad geographical focus
and analyses cases from different regions around the world. The
volume mainly tackles democratic contexts, although dictatorial
regimes are not excluded.
This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities
of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe
under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced
into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide
good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain
personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as
national systems underwent authoritarian reform and
collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments
were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and
repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the
realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics
such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the
repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war
purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration,
resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.
Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing
perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by
different social, ethnic, political and religious groups during the
conflict and its aftermath. The book combines chapters on broad
topics like propaganda state formation, town and nation, and
minorities at war, with more specific case studies in order to
deepen our understanding of how processes of national
identification supported the cultures of total war in Europe. This
transnational volume also reveals and develops a range of
insightful connections between the themes it covers, as well as
between different groups within Europe and different countries and
regions, including Western and Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire
and colonial territories. It is a vital study for all students and
scholars of the First World War.
Nations, Identities and the First World War examines the changing
perceptions and attitudes about the nation and the fatherland by
different social, ethnic, political and religious groups during the
conflict and its aftermath. The book combines chapters on broad
topics like propaganda state formation, town and nation, and
minorities at war, with more specific case studies in order to
deepen our understanding of how processes of national
identification supported the cultures of total war in Europe. This
transnational volume also reveals and develops a range of
insightful connections between the themes it covers, as well as
between different groups within Europe and different countries and
regions, including Western and Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire
and colonial territories. It is a vital study for all students and
scholars of the First World War.
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