Screen LibraryThe breakthrough : human rights in the 1970s /
The Breakthrough is the first collection to examine key developments in both Western and non-Western engagement with human rights in the period between the 1960s and the 1980s.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pennsylvania studies in human rights
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The Breakthrough is the first collection to examine key developments in both Western and non-Western engagement with human rights in the period between the 1960s and the 1980s. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 1 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208719 |
| Index Number: | JC571 |
| CLC: | D082 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History / Chapter 2. The Dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: Self-Determination, the Biafran War of Secession, and the 1970s Human Rights Moment / Chapter 3. The Disenchantment of Socialism: Soviet Dissidents, Human Rights, and the New Global Morality / Chapter 4. Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s / Chapter 5. Whose Utopia? Gender, Ideology, and Human Rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin / Chapter 6. "Magic Words" The Advent of Transnational Human Rights Activism in Latin America s Southern Cone in the Long 1970s / Chapter 7. Shifting Sites of Argentine Advocacy and the Shape of 1970s Human Rights Debates / Chapter 8. Oasis in the Desert? America s Human Rights Rediscovery / Chapter 9. Human Rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the Late 1970s / Chapter 10. The Polish Opposition, the Crisis of the Gierek Era, and the Helsinki Process / Chapter 11. "Human Rights Are Like Coca-Cola" Contested Human Rights Discourses in Suharto s Indonesia, 1968 1980 / Chapter 12. Why South Africa? The Politics of Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain in the Long 1970s / Chapter 13. The Rebirth of Politics from the Spirit of Morality: Explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s / Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |