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The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century / Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago.
Van Pelt Library JC599.U5 B63 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, Mark, 1961- author.
- Series:
- Human rights in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Human rights.
- Transnationalism.
- History.
- Globalization--Political aspects.
- Globalization.
- Decolonization.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Social change.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Human rights--Language--History--20th century.
- Social change--History--20th century.
- War--Moral and ethical aspects--History--20th century.
- War.
- Decolonization--History--20th century.
- Globalization--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- Transnationalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521829755
- 0521829755
- OCLC:
- 946031535
- Publisher Number:
- 99969346713
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