Abstract
Latin American historians and social scientists have been grappling with the region's experience of crimes against humanity since the 1950s. In recent years, a number of important works have sought to go beyond the concern for “transitional justice” as a frame for writing about how societies grapple with atrocious pasts, examining instead the ties between historiography and the legacies of atrocity—the murky relationship between what is known about and what is known from the past.
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Review Essays
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© 2009 Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2009
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