The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781108721905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 324 str.

Mark Philip Bradley

Opis

This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.

Recenzje

'This work is informative and adds new perspectives on American human rights history. … Bradley's work provides a judicious and insightful summary of America's role - both its promise and its limitations - in promoting human rights in the three decades since the Second World War.' Matthew Hill, Journal of the Conference on Faith and History

Spis treści

Introduction: how it feels to be free; Part I. The 1940s: 1. At home in the world; 2. The wartime rights imagination; 3. Beyond belief; 4. Conditions of possibility; Part II. The 1970s: 5. Circulations; 6. American vernaculars I; 7. American vernaculars II; 8. The movement; Coda: the sense of an ending.