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Book Condition: Used Very Good Condition
Jacket condition: Very Good
ISBN: 0801444365 / 9780801444364
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop

United Kingdom
About Item: Cornell University Press, 2006. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Pen name and date to endpaper (possibly the author's ??), otherwise an an excellent copy. "Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at the core of reconciliation and reconstruction. It has been used to justify great crimes, and yet it is central to the pursuit of justice. In these and more everyday ways, we live surrounded by memory, individual and social: in our habits, our names, the places where we live, street names, libraries, archives, and our citizenship, institutions, and laws. Still, we wonder what to make of memory and its gifts, though sometimes we are hardly even certain that they are gifts. Of the many chambers in this vast palace, I mean to ask particularly after the place of memory in politics, in the identity of political communities, and in their practices of doing justice. W. James Booth seeks to understand the place of memory in the… Read More
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