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Reclaiming American virtue : the human rights revolution of the 1970s /

The American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma, as Barbara Keys shows in this provocative history. Reclaiming American Virtue situates this novel enthusiasm as a reaction to th...

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Основен автор: Keys, Barbara J.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=575627
Подобни документи: Print version:: Reclaiming American virtue
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: enter human rights
  • The postwar marginality of universal human rights
  • Managing civil rights at home
  • The trauma of the Vietnam War
  • The liberal critique of right-wing dictatorships
  • The anticommunist embrace of human rights
  • A new calculus emerges
  • Insurgency on Capitol Hill
  • The human rights lobby
  • A moralist campaigns for president
  • "We want to be proud again"
  • Conclusion: universal human rights in American foreign policy.