Historical redress : must we pay for the past? /: must we pay for the past?. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Vernon.
• Authors: Vernon, Richard, 1945-
• Contents: 1 Does the past have rights? -- Why rights matter -- The testamentary model -- Our interests survive us -- Can the dead be harmed? -- Posthumous rights and cold cases -- The 'too abstract' objection -- 2 Who benefits? -- Does anyone benefit? -- Does injustice pay? -- Baseline issues -- Do benefits create duties? -- Unjust Enrichment -- Is redress the right response? -- 3 What memory calls for -- Kinds of memory -- What truth commissions can do -- Public apology -- From apology to identity -- 4 Because we are who we are -- Relationship terms -- Nation, or state? -- Complicity -- Political continuity -- 5 Back to the future -- Inherited wrongs -- The lynching of Louis Sam -- Why history matters -- Ants and grasshoppers -- On clarity.
• Publisher Details: London, England New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (184 pages)
• Subjects: 320.01/1; Reparations for historical injustices -- Philosophy; Justice (Philosophy); Responsibility -- Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Justice (Philosophy); Reparations for historical injustices -- Philosophy; Responsibility -- Philosophy; Reparations for historical injustices -- Philosophy; Responsibility -- Philosophy; Justice (Philosophy); Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441180896; 1441180893
• Related ISBNs: 9781441121318
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.