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Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence : The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria /

This book explores the relationship between the human rights movement emerging after 1945 and the increasing violence of decolonization. Based on material previously inaccessible in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, this comp...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Klose, Fabian
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Alemán
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • The new world order, 1941-1948
  • Contested decolonization, 1945-1962
  • The legitimation of colonial violence
  • The unleashing of colonial violence
  • The international discourse on human rights as marked by the wars of decolonization
  • Conclusion.