TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klose,Fabian
TI  - Human rights in the shadow of colonial violence: the wars of independence in Kenya and Algeria 
T2  - Pennsylvania studies in human rights
SN  - 9780812244953
AV  - JC599 .K56 2013
U1  - 965/.046 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Mau Mau Emergency (Kenya : 1952-1960)
KW  - fast
KW  - Revolution (Algeria : 1954-1962)
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Algeria
KW  - British colonies
KW  - French colonies
KW  - Mau-Mau
KW  - gnd
KW  - History
KW  - Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960
KW  - Revolution, 1954-1962
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Africa
KW  - France
N1  - English translation of Menschenrechte im Schatten kolonialer Gewalt: die Dekolonisierungskriege in Kenia und Algerien 1945-1962, published in 2009 by Oldenbourg; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The new world order, 1941-1948 -- Contested decolonization, 1945-1962 -- The legitimation of colonial violence -- The unleashing of colonial violence -- The international discourse on human rights as marked by the wars of decolonization -- Conclusion
N2  - Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence explores the relationship between the human rights movement emerging after 1945 and the increasing violence of decolonization. Based on material previously inaccessible in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, this comparative study uses the Mau Mau War (1952-1956) and the Algerian War (1954-1962) to examine the policies of two major imperial powers, Britain and France. Historian Fabian Klose considers the significance of declared states of emergency, counterinsurgency strategy, and the significance of humanitarian international law in both conflicts. Klose's findings from these previously confidential archives reveal the escalating violence and oppressive tactics used by the British and French military during these anticolonial conflicts in North and East Africa, where Western powers that promoted human rights in other areas of the world were opposed to the growing global acceptance of freedom, equality, self-determination, and other postwar ideals. Practices such as collective punishment, torture, and extrajudicial killings did lasting damage to international human rights efforts until the end of decolonization. Klose's findings from these previously confidential archives reveal the escalating violence and oppressive tactics used by the British and French military during these anticolonial conflicts in North and East Africa, where Western powers that promoted human rights in other areas of the world were opposed to the growing global acceptance of freedom, equality, self-determination, and other postwar ideals. Practices such as collective punishment, torture, and extrajudicial killings did lasting damage to international human rights efforts until the end of decolonization. Clearly argued and meticulously researched, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence demonstrates the mutually impacting histories of international human rights and decolonization, expanding our understanding of political violence in human rights discourse. -- Publisher's website
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