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Volume 20, Number 1

Winter 2008 The Public Life of History

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The Public Life of History

Bain AttwoodDipesh ChakrabartyClaudio Lomnitz
In September 2005, Bain Attwood and Dipesh Chakrabarty convened a group of historians at the Australian National University to discuss the productive effects of the contemporary politics of recognitio

Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa

Achille Mbembe
Thirteen years after the formal abolition of apartheid, South Africa is no longer what it used to be. It is coming out of the dark age of white supremacy.

Red Mosque

Faisal Devji
On July 10, 2007, Pakistani soldiers stormed the Red Mosque complex of Islamabad in an assault that killed some two hundred people, thus ending months of aggressive and well-publicized provocations by

Making History Public: Indigenous Claims to Settler States

Miranda Johnson
In the past four decades, history has become a matter of fierce public debate in the three settler states of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

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