Format:
xviii, 306 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0521829755
,
9780521829755
Series Statement:
Human rights in history
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
USA
;
Menschenrecht
;
Politische Sprache
;
Politische Kultur
;
Geschichte 1945-1980
