Bradley, Mark,

World reimagined: Americans and human rights in the twentieth century / Mark Philip Bradley. - UK, Cambridge, 2016. - xviii, 306 pages ; - Human rights in history .

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.

9780521829755


Human rights--United States
Human rights
Social change
War
Decolonization
Globalization
Transnationalism
World politics

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