The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century /

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 a...

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Main Author: Bradley, Mark, 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Human rights in history.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xviii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780521829755
0521829755