The world reimagined :
Bradley, Mark, 1961-
The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century / Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago. - xviii, 306 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Human rights in history . - Human rights in history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-294) 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 0521829755
2016008587
Human rights--History--United States--20th century.
Human rights--Language--History--20th century.
Social change--History--20th century.
War--Moral and ethical aspects--History--20th century.
Decolonization--History--20th century.
Globalization--Political aspects--History--20th century.
Transnationalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.
World politics--1945-1989.
Menschenrecht
Politische Sprache
Politische Kultur
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
USA
JC599.U5 / B63 2016
323.0973/0904
The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century / Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago. - xviii, 306 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Human rights in history . - Human rights in history. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-294) 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 0521829755
2016008587
Human rights--History--United States--20th century.
Human rights--Language--History--20th century.
Social change--History--20th century.
War--Moral and ethical aspects--History--20th century.
Decolonization--History--20th century.
Globalization--Political aspects--History--20th century.
Transnationalism--Political aspects--History--20th century.
World politics--1945-1989.
Menschenrecht
Politische Sprache
Politische Kultur
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
USA
JC599.U5 / B63 2016
323.0973/0904