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The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism : spectacles of suffering /
"In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and TV stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Human rights in history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and TV stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war that had been fought for one year without fostering any substantial interest from international publics became 'Biafra' - the epitome of humanitarian crisis. Based on archival research from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, this book is the first comprehensive study of the global history of the conflict. A major addition to the flourishing history of human rights and humanitarianism, it argues that the global moment "Biafra" is closely linked to the ascendance of human rights, humanitarianism, and Holocaust memory in a postcolonial world. The conflict was a key episode for the re-structuring of the relations between the West and the Third World."--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 398 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-392) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108518079 1108518079 9781108524032 1108524036 1108506151 9781108506151 1108513603 9781108513609 1108515096 9781108515092 1108516580 9781108516587 1316282244 9781316282243 |