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_bBRA.W
100 1 _aBradley, Mark,
245 1 4 _aWorld reimagined:
_bAmericans and human rights in the twentieth century /
_cMark Philip Bradley.
260 _aUK,
_bCambridge,
_c2016.
300 _axviii, 306 pages ;
490 0 _aHuman rights in history
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 2 _a"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.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_zUnited States
650 0 _aHuman rights
650 0 _aSocial change
650 0 _aWar
650 0 _aDecolonization
650 0 _aGlobalization
650 0 _aTransnationalism
650 0 _aWorld politics
942 _cBK