TY - BOOK AU - Bradley,Mark TI - The world reimagined: Americans and human rights in the twentieth century T2 - Human rights in history SN - 9780521829755 AV - JC599.U5 B63 2016 U1 - 323.0973/0904 23 KW - KW - Human rights KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Language KW - Social change KW - War KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Decolonization KW - Globalization KW - Political aspects KW - Transnationalism KW - World politics KW - 1945-1989 KW - Menschenrecht KW - gnd KW - Politische Sprache KW - Politische Kultur KW - Foreign relations KW - USA N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://shibboleth2sp.gar.semcs.net/Shibboleth.sso/Login?entityID=https%3A%2F%2Fpassport01.leeds.ac.uk%2Fidp%2Fshibboleth&target=https%3A%2F%2Fshibboleth2sp.gar.semcs.net%2Fshib%3Fdest%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.vlebooks.com%252FSHIBBOLETH%253Fdest%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.vlebooks.com%25252Fvleweb%25252Fproduct%25252Fopenreader%25253Fid%25253DLeedsUni%252526isbn%25253D9781316722305 ER -