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Product Description: This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Although it recognizes that campaigns for reparations may lead to an improvement in the well-being of victims of mistreatment by states and to reconciliation among former antagonists, it examines the extent to which the concern with the past may represent a departure from the traditionally future-oriented stance of progressive politics...read more

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9780674019430 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $48.50 | About this edition: This book explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past.

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Hardcover:

9781844670185 | Verso Books, July 15, 2005, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9781844675203 | Verso Books, July 14, 2005, cover price $23.00

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Product Description: Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices. Demonstrating that 'reparations politics' has become one of the most important features of international politics in recent years, the authors analyze why this is the case and show that reparations politics can be expected to be a major aspect of international affairs in coming years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John C. Torpey (editor)

Hardcover:

9780742517981 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $111.00 | About this edition: Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices.

Paperback:

9780742517998 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 2003, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices.

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By Jane Caplan (editor) and John C. Torpey (editor)

Hardcover:

9780691009117 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $80.00

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9780691009124 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 19, 2001, cover price $52.00

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This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and noncitizens. It explains how the concept of citizenship has been used over the past 200 years to delineate rights and penalties regarding property, liberty, taxes and welfare. Focusing on the United States and Western Europe, it combines theory and empirical data in questioning how and why states have established the exclusive right to authorize and regulate the movement of people. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780521632492 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: This innovative book argues that documents such as passports, internal passports and related mechanisms have been crucial in making distinctions between citizens and noncitizens.

Paperback:

9780521634939 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $54.99

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Product Description: Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions...read more

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9780816625666 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995.

Paperback:

9780816625673 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent was first published in 1995.

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