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...
Основен автор: | Keys, Barbara J. |
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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 |
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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.