Bills of rights and decolonization
Subtitle: the emergence of domestic human rights instruments in Britain's overseas territories
By: Charles O.H. Parkinson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780199231935
Subjects: Civil rights -- Great Britain -- Colonies; Human rights -- Great Britain -- Colonies; Law -- Great Britain -- Colonies; Decolonization -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Description: This title analyses the British Government's radical change in policy during the late 1950s on the use of bills of rights in colonial territories nearing independence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references( p. 281-291) and index.