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The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century / Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Human rights in historyDescription: xviii, 306 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521829755
  • 0521829755
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.0973/0904 23
LOC classification:
  • JC599.U5 B63 2016
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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.
Scope and content: "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.
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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.

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