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100 1 $aNobles, Melissa.
245 14 $aThe politics of official apologies /$cMelissa Nobles.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
300 $axiii, 200 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-187) and index.
505 0 $aToward a membership theory of apologies -- History of national memberships in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States -- To apologize or not to apologize : national histories and official apologies -- Beyond sentiment? : apologies and their effects -- The weight of history and the value of apologies.
520 1 $a"Intense interest in past injustice lies at the center of contemporary world politics. Most scholarly and public attention has focused on truth commissions, trials, lustration, and other related decisions, following political transitions. This book examines the political uses of official apologies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. It explores why minority groups demand such apologies and why governments do or do not offer them. Melissa Nobles argues that apologies can help to alter the terms and meanings of national membership. Minority groups demand apologies in order to focus attention on historical injustices, the rectification of which, they argue, should guide changes in present-day government policies. Similarly, state actors support apologies for ideological and moral reasons, driven by their support of group rights, responsiveness to group demands, and belief that acknowledgment is due. Apologies, as employed by political actors, play an important, if underappreciated, role in bringing certain views about history and moral obligation to bear in public life."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zNorth America$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zAustralia$xHistory.
650 0 $aCivil rights$zNew Zealand$xHistory.
650 0 $aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects$zNorth America.
650 0 $aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects$zAustralia.
650 0 $aReconciliation$xPolitical aspects$zNew Zealand.
650 0 $aApologizing.
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