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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 1...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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UK,
Cambridge,
2016.
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| Series: | Human rights in history
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Table of 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.