The Guilt of nations: restitution and negotiating historical injustices

Elazar Barkan offers a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on both national and international politics through in-depth explorations of reparation demands for a wide variety of past wrongs: the Holocaust; Japanese enslavement of comfort women in Korea and the Philippines; the interment of Japanese Americans; the oppression of indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, and…