Type book Authors Elazar Barkan Place Baltimore Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Short title The guilt of nations Language English ISBN 0-8018-6807-6 978-0-8018-6807-8 Keywords (ab)uses of history 3 history outside academia memory/forgetting nationalism/nation building Abstract The author takes a sweeping look at the idea of restitution and its impact on the concept of human rights and the practice of politics. He confronts the difficulties of determining victims and assigning blame.