Product Description: Recent decades have witnessed a sharp rise in the number of state apologies with historical and more recent injustices ranging from enslavement to displacement and from violations of treaties t war crimes,all providing the backdrop to outward displays of official regret...read more

Product Description: In the last years of the twentieth century, political leaders the world over began to apologize for wrongs in their nations' pasts. Many dismissed these apologies as "mere words," cynical attempts to avoid more costly forms of reparation; others rejected them as inappropriate encroachments into politics or forms of action that belonged in personal relationships or religion...read more