The Breakthrough : Human Rights in the 197s /

"Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Moyn, Samuel (Editor ), Eckel, Jan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Human rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Human rights > History > 20th century.
Essais.
Essays.
History.
essays.
Essay
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The return of the prodigal : the 1970s as a turning point in human rights history / Samuel Moyn
  • The dystopia of postcolonial catastrophe : self-determination, the Biafran war of secession, and the 1970s human rights moment / Lasse Heerten
  • The disenchantment of socialism : Soviet dissidents, human rights, and the new global morality / Benjamin Nathans
  • Dictatorship and dissent : human rights in East Germany in the 1970s / Ned Richardson-Little
  • Whose utopia? Gender, ideology, and human rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin / Celia Donert
  • "Magic words" : the advent of transnational human rights activism in Latin America's Southern Cone in the long 1970s / Patrick William Kelly
  • Shifting sites of Argentine advocacy and the shape of 1970s human rights debates / Lynsay Skiba
  • Oasis in the desert? America's human rights rediscovery / Daniel Sargent
  • Human rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the late 1970s / Carl J. Bon Tempo
  • The Polish opposition, the crisis of the Gierek era, and the Helsinki Process / Gunter Dehnert
  • "Human rights Are Like Coca-Cola" : contested human rights discourses in Suharto's Indonesia, 1968-1980 / Brad Simpson
  • Why South Africa? The politics of anti-apartheid activism in Britain in the long 1970s / Simon Stevens
  • The rebirth of politics from the spirit of morality : explaining the human rights revolution of the 1970s / Jan Eckel.

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