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Decolonization, self-determination, and the rise of global human rights
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- Creator
- edited by A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti, Roland Burke
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781108783170, 1108783171, 9781108479356, 9781108749701, 9781108479356
- OCLC
- on1141926621
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Human rights, empire, and after / Roland Burke, Marco Duranti, and A. Dirk Moses -- Seeking the political kingdom : universal human rights and the anti-colonial movement in Africa / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Decolonizing the United Nations : anti-colonialism and human rights in the French Empire / Marco Duranti -- The French Red Cross, decolonization, and humanitarianism during the Algerian War / Jennifer Johnson -- Connecting indigenous rights to human rights in the Anglo settler states : another 1970s story / Miranda Johnson -- Privileging the Cold War over decolonization : the US emphasis on political rights / Mary Ann Heiss -- Cutting out the ulcer and washing away the incubus of the past : genocide prevention through population transfer / A. Dirk Moses -- Codifying minority rights : postcolonial constitutionalism in Burma, Ceylon, and India / Cindy Ewing -- Between ambitions and caution : India, human rights and self-determination at the United Nations / Raphaëlle Khan -- "From this era of passionate self-discovery" : Norman Manley, human rights, and the end of colonial rule in Jamacia / Steven L.B. Jensen -- Re-entering histories of past imperial violence : Kenya, Indonesia, and the reach of transitional justice / Michael Humphrey -- The inventors of human rights in Africa : Portugal, late colonialism, and the UN human rights regime / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro -- "A world made safe for diversity" : apartheid and the language of human rights, progress, and pluralism / Roland Burke -- Between humanitarian rights and human rights : René Cassin, architect of universality, diplomat of French Empire / Jay Winter -- The end of the Vietnam War and the rise of human rights / Barbara Keys -- Decolonizing the Geneva Conventions : national liberation and the development of humanitarian law / Eleanor Davey -- Liberté sans Frontières, French humanitarianism, and the neoliberal critique of Third Worldism / Jessica Whyte