The World Reimagined : Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Human Rights in History
ISBN-10
0521829755
ISBN-13
9780521829755
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 12th, 2016
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
594 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 23.90 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasPolitical science & theoryHuman rights
Ksh 3,700.00
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This book shows readers how and why human rights have 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.
Concerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was something altogether different. Global human rights offered individuals unprecedented guarantees beyond the nation for the protection of political, economic, social and cultural freedoms. The World Reimagined explores how these revolutionary developments first became believable to Americans in the 1940s and the 1970s through everyday vernaculars as they emerged in political and legal thought, photography, film, novels, memoirs and soundscapes. Together, they offered fundamentally novel ways for Americans to understand what it means to feel free, culminating in today''s ubiquitous moral language of human rights. Set against a sweeping transnational canvas, the book presents a new history of how Americans thought and acted in the twentieth-century world.
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