{"product_id":"the-moral-witness-trials-and-testimony-after-genocide-hardback-9781501735066","title":"The Moral Witness; Trials and Testimony After Genocide (Hardback) 9781501735066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Moral Witness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTrials and Testimony After Genocide\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarolyn J. Dean (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501735066\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e198 pages, 7 b\u0026amp;w halftones - 7 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDean has provided a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of the emergence of \"the witness\" as a moral symbol and pervasive icon of suffering and surviving genocide and mass atrocities.... The book will be valuable to students and scholars who study genocide, testimony, victimhood, and social and cultural trauma in the aftermath of mass atrocities.\u003c\/p\u003e (Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books) \u003cp\u003eCarolyn Dean traces the paths by which victims, survivors, and witnesses of mass atrocities moved from the culture's sidelines to its moral center... convincingly show[ing] that the figure of the witness has become the barometer of moral consciousness across the West.... [Its] global lens and \u003ci\u003elongue durée\u003c\/i\u003e perspective have considerable value.\u003c\/p\u003e (AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW) \u003cp\u003eCarolyn Dean's painstakingly researched, rigorously argued reconstruction of the cultural icon of the moral witness exemplifies the ascendant genre of the succinct, historical essay-book.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal of Modern History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moral Witness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is the first cultural history of the \"witness to genocide\" in the West.\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy the turn of the twentieth century, the \"witness to genocide\" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607782027544,"sku":"9781501735066","price":97.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-moral-witness-trials-and-testimony-after-genocide-hardback-9781501735066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}