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Title:

Taking liberties : a history of human rights in Canada / edited by David Goutor and Stephen Heathorn.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

ix, 291 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Human rights--Canada--History.

Other Authors:

Heathorn, Stephen J., 1965- editor of compilation .
Goutor, David, 1969- editor of compilation .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [272]-281) and index.

Contents:

Afterword. William Schabas. Rights, history, and turning points / James W. St. G. Walker -- Where do we begin? : Human rights, public history, and the challenges of conceptualization / Bonny Ibhawoh -- The rights revolution in Canada and Australia : international politics, social movements, and domestic law / Dominique Cl©♭ment -- "Their equality is my equality" : F. Andrew Brewin and human rights activism, 1940s-1970s / Stephanie Bangarth -- Transnational links and citizens' rights : Canadian Jewish human rights activists and their American allies in the 1940s and 1950s / Ruth A. Frager and Carmela Patrias -- A limited vision : Canadian participation in the adoption of the international covenants on human rights / Jennifer Tunnicliffe -- Children's rights from below : Canadian and transnational actions, beliefs, and discourses, 1900-1989 / Dominique Marshall -- Social movements and human rights : gender, sexuality, and the Charter in English-speaking Canada / Miriam Smith -- Human rights for some : first nations rights in twentieth-century Canada / J.R. Miller -- Afterword. Rights, history, and turning points / William Schabas.

ISBN:

019900479X (bound)
9780199004799 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)841911299

Locations:

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