Title: The world reimagined : Americans and human rights in the twentieth century /
Authors: Bradley, Mark, 1961-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Human rights United States History; Human rights Language History; Social change History; War Moral and ethical aspects History; Decolonization History; Globalization Political aspects History; Transnationalism Political aspects History; World politics; United States Foreign relations
Abstract: "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.
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.