226 records matched your query       

Author:

Bradley, Mark, 1961- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xviii, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human rights--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
Human rights--History--History--20th century.
Social change--History--20th century.
War--History--History--20th century.
Decolonization--History--20th century.
Globalization--History--History--20th century.
Transnationalism--History--History--20th century.
World politics--1945-1989.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-294) and index.

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.

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"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Human rights in history

ISBN:

0521829755 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9780521829755 (hardback : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946031535

LCCN:

2016008587

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)