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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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