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History, empathy and conflict = heroes, victims and victimisers /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	History, empathy and conflict/ by Philip Towle.
Reminder of title:	heroes, victims and victimisers /
Author:	Towle, Philip.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
Description:	x, 159 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	1: Introduction -- Part 1 Heroes to Victims -- 2: The Victimised -- 3: From Heroes to Victims -- 4: A Gratitude Free Zone -- Part 2 Responses -- 5: "Memory Wars" and National Apologies -- 6: Historical Education -- 7: Restitution -- Part 3 Force and Memory -- 8: From Heroes to Victimisers -- 9: Memory as Guidance -- 10: Hiding Victimisation -- 11: 2016: The Victory of Victimhood.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Victims - History. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77959-1
ISBN:	9783319779591

History, empathy and conflict = heroes, victims and victimisers /
Towle, Philip.

History, empathy and conflictheroes, victims and victimisers /[electronic resource] :by Philip Towle. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - x, 159 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1: Introduction -- Part 1 Heroes to Victims -- 2: The Victimised -- 3: From Heroes to Victims -- 4: A Gratitude Free Zone -- Part 2 Responses -- 5: "Memory Wars" and National Apologies -- 6: Historical Education -- 7: Restitution -- Part 3 Force and Memory -- 8: From Heroes to Victimisers -- 9: Memory as Guidance -- 10: Hiding Victimisation -- 11: 2016: The Victory of Victimhood.

This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history's heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after the victims of violence. Where war reports used to focus on the leadership of the generals and the bravery of the troops, now they are mostly about casualties, refugees and destruction. History, Empathy and Conflict examines the diplomatic consequences of such a revolution in sensibility. Many governments have responded by apologising for their country's historic actions. History teaching in schools has sometimes been revised to reflect the new emphasis and to build confidence between nations and respect for domestic minorities. Not least of the reasons for these changes is the difficulty or impossibility of making restitution for past wrongs. But history can also be used by the media and governments to justify intervention to protect victims of civil wars only to come to be seen as victimisers themselves. The past is always difficult to interpret but is the basis of all our decisions and all institutions try to twist it to their own convenience. Sympathy with history's victims is a great moral advance but it can be used by dissatisfied nations to justify their revisionist policies and with the election of President Trump in 2016, all the Great Powers claim to be history's victims.

ISBN: 9783319779591

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-77959-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

3332321
Victims
--History.

LC Class. No.: D21.3 / .T69 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 909.08

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