In this extraordinary new text, an international array of scholars
explore the enduring legacy of such social shocks as war, genocide,
slavery, tyranny, crime, and disease. Among the cases addressed are -
instances of genocide in Turkey, Cambodia, and Russia - the plight of
the families of Holocaust survivors, atomic bomb survivors in Japan, and
even the children of Nazis - the long-term effects associated with the
Vietnam War and the war in Yugoslavia - and the psychology arising from
the legacy of slavery in America.