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The world reimagined : Americans and humans rights in the twentieth century
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"For readers who want to understand why human rights has become the moral language of our time. It explores the making of a twentieth century global human rights imagination and its American vernac...
"For readers who want to understand why human rights has become the moral language of our time. It explores the making of a twentieth century global human rights imagination and its American vernaculars in times of war, decolonization and globalization during the transformative decades of the 1940s and 1970s"--Provided by publisher.
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- Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago
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- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016
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- xviii, 306 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1316725901, 9780521829755, 0521829755, 9781316725306, 9781316725900, 1316724107, 1316725308, 9781316724101
- OCLC
- ocn946031535
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-294) and index.
- Introduction: How it feels to be free -- Part One. The 1940s -- At home in the world -- The wartime rights imagination -- Beyond belief -- Conditions of possibility -- Part Two. The 1970s -- Circulations -- American vernaculars I -- American vernaculars II -- The movement -- Coda: The sense of an ending
Subjects
- Human rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.
- Human rights -- Language -- History -- 20th century.
- Social change -- History -- 20th century.
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Decolonization -- History -- 20th century.
- Globalization -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
- World politics -- 1945-1989.