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Bringing Human Rights Home – A History of Human Rights in the United States: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Autor Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, Martha F. Davis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2009
Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in this volume put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812220797
ISBN-10: 081222079X
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:Prescurtată
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Seria Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights


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Preface -Cynthia Soohoo, Martha F. Davis, and Catherine Albisa PART I: A HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES Introduction to Part I -Martha F. Davis Chapter 1. A Human Rights Lens on U.S. History: Human Rights at Home and Human Rights Abroad -Paul Gordon Lauren Chapter 2. FDR's Four Freedoms and Wartime Transformations in America's Discourse of Rights -Elizabeth Borgwardt Chapter 3. A "Hollow Mockery": African Americans, White Supremacy, and the Development of Human Rights in the United States -Carol Anderson Chapter 4. "New" Human Rights? U.S. Ambivalence Toward the International Economic and Social Rights Framework -Hope Lewis PART II: FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS Introduction to Part II -Catherine Albisa Chapter 5. Against American Supremacy: Rebuilding Human Rights Culture in the United States -Dorothy Q. Thomas Chapter 6. Economic and Social Rights in the United States: Six Rights, One Promise -Catherine Albisa Chapter 7. Human Rights and the Transformation of the "Civil Rights" and "Civil Liberties" Lawyer -Cynthia Soohoo Chapter 8. "Going Global": Appeals to International and Regional Human Rights Bodies -Margaret Huang Chapter 9. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: States, Municipalities, and International Human Rights -Martha F. Davis Chapter 10. The Impact of September 11 and the Struggle Against Terrorism on the U.S. Domestic Human Rights Movement -Wendy Patten Chapter 11. Bush Administration Noncompliance with the Prohibition on Torture and Cruel and Degrading Treatment -Kathryn Sikkink Chapter 12. Trade Unions and Human Rights -Lance Compa About the Editors and Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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