Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war, but also of mass...
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." In 1968 the world watched as Earth rose over the moonscape, televised from the orbiting Apollo 8 mission capsule. Radioing back to Houston on Christmas Eve, astronauts recited t...
Kendrick Oliver is Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Southampton
List of illustrations; Preface; Maps; Introduction; 1. Reporting atrocity; 2. Containing culpability; 3. Dispersing culpability; 4. Abstracting culpability; 5. Displacing the victims; 6. Remembering atrocity; Conclusion; Select Bibliography.