The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been systematically explored. How is it to look at the past from a human rights perspective? How can historical writing benefit from applying a human rights logic? In tackling these questions, the Element first clarifies what a human rights view of the past is. The constituent dimensions of the ...

Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages.The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archi...

De recente geschiedenis verklaardDe recente geschiedenis komt vaak ongefilterd en overweldigend op ons af. Door de vele informatie is het soms moeilijk de hoofdlijnen van het nieuws te volgen. Het is mogelijk om dan de greep op het geheel te verliezen. Er is dus behoefte aan duiding.Grenzen in beweging legt de assen van onze tijd bloot en verheldert zo de hedendaagse geschiedenis. Het schetst de situatie van de Lage Landen en zoomt dan uit naar Eur...

Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages.The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists bei...