Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia

ISBN-13: 9781108460279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 219 str.

Jon Piccini

Opis

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

Recenzje

'Jon Piccini's excellent history of human rights in twentieth century Australia joins a growing number of 'national human rights histories' that seek to show how domestic political and civil movements engaged with the emergent global discourse of human rights … This book, which draws on a wide range of Australian newspapers, manuscript collections, archives, and publications from a wide range of civil liberties, human rights, indigenous rights, and sectarian organizations, should appeal to historians of modern Australian politics and foreign policy, indigenous transnationalism, and human rights more generally.' Brad Simpson, Journal of Contemporary History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction: bereft of words; 1. Inventing rights; 2. Cold War rights; 3. Experimental rights; 4. Who's rights? 5. Implementing rights; Epilogue: cascade or trickle?