A World divided : the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states /

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A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights-a transformation that suggests tha...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Weitz, Eric D. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Collection:Human rights and crimes against humanity ; 34.
Sujets:
Human rights > History.
Human rights > International cooperation.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Histoire.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Coopération internationale.
HISTORY > World.
Human rights
Human rights > International cooperation
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Empires and rulers, the eighteenth century and beyond
  • Greece, leaving the empire
  • America, Indian removals in the North Country
  • Brazil, slavery and emancipation
  • Armenians and Jews, the creation of minorities
  • Namibia, the rights of whites
  • Korea, Colonial legacies and human rights in a divided country
  • The Soviet Union, Communism and the birth of the modern human rights movement
  • Palestine and Israel, trauma and triumph
  • Rwanda and Burundi, colonization and the power of race
  • Nation-states and human rights, the twenty-first century and beyond.

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