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Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977

Buchanan Tom
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781107127517
Publisert
2020-04-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
670 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
358

Forfatter
Buchanan Tom

Biographical note

Tom Buchanan is Professor of Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement (1991), Britain and the Spanish Civil War (1997), and The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory (2007). He has also published Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945 to the present (2006/2012), East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976 (2012) and his most recent publication is a co-edited book on the centenary of the Balkan Wars titled War in the Balkans (2015).

Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977

Buchanan Tom
Innbundet / 2020 / Engelsk
Buchanan Tom
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In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration to many new activist movements in 'the field of human rights', and helped to affect major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across the globe.
Les mer
Introduction; 1. Dawn: 1934–50; 2. Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s; 3. Political imprisonment and human rights, 1945–64; 4. The early years of Amnesty International, 1961–4; 5. 'The crisis of growth', Amnesty International 1964–68; 6. 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights; 7. Torture states: 1967–75; 8. 'All things come to those who wait': the later 1970s; Conclusion. The winds of history.
Les mer
'This is a major intervention in the study of human rights. Buchanan's enthralling history of Amnesty International is superbly researched and written. It explores one of the key organizations involved in developing both the conceptual and practical meaning of human rights – itself one of the defining terms of the post-war period. Transnational in its range across the British empire, Chile, Greece and beyond, it offers refreshing new perspectives on British political culture from the 1940s to 1970s.' Lawrence Black, University of York
Les mer
Demonstrates how activists worked together during the post-war decades to transform public attitudes towards violations of human rights.

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In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration to many new activist movements in 'the field of human rights', and helped to affect major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across the globe.
Les mer
Introduction; 1. Dawn: 1934–50; 2. Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s; 3. Political imprisonment and human rights, 1945–64; 4. The early years of Amnesty International, 1961–4; 5. 'The crisis of growth', Amnesty International 1964–68; 6. 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights; 7. Torture states: 1967–75; 8. 'All things come to those who wait': the later 1970s; Conclusion. The winds of history.
Les mer
'This is a major intervention in the study of human rights. Buchanan's enthralling history of Amnesty International is superbly researched and written. It explores one of the key organizations involved in developing both the conceptual and practical meaning of human rights – itself one of the defining terms of the post-war period. Transnational in its range across the British empire, Chile, Greece and beyond, it offers refreshing new perspectives on British political culture from the 1940s to 1970s.' Lawrence Black, University of York
Les mer
Demonstrates how activists worked together during the post-war decades to transform public attitudes towards violations of human rights.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781107127517
Publisert
2020-04-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
670 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
157 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
358

Forfatter
Buchanan Tom

Biographical note

Tom Buchanan is Professor of Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement (1991), Britain and the Spanish Civil War (1997), and The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory (2007). He has also published Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945 to the present (2006/2012), East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976 (2012) and his most recent publication is a co-edited book on the centenary of the Balkan Wars titled War in the Balkans (2015).

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