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World reimagined: Americans and human rights in the twentieth century / Mark Philip Bradley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Human rights in historyPublication details: UK, Cambridge, 2016.Description: xviii, 306 pagesISBN:
  • 9780521829755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323 BRA.W
Contents:
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.
Scope and content: "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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Book Book Dept. of Law Processing Center Dept. of Law 323 BRA.W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available LAW4995

Includes bibliographical references 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.

"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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