Communities of Memory: On Witness, Identity, and Justice by W. James Booth

Cornell University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UsedAcceptable. Missing dust jacket. Minor wear/discoloration on cover/spine/corners, notes/underlines throuhgout book, but pages are in great reading condition.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cornell University Press, 2006-01-25. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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

Cornell Univ Pr, 2006. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 264 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches.