A world divided : the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states / Eric D. Weitz
Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz sho...
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| Main Authors: | Weitz, Eric D. (Author) |
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| Formato: | Livro |
| Idioma: | English |
| Publicado em: | Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019] © 2019 |
| Colecção: | Human rights and crimes against humanity
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| Acesso em linha: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| Empires and rulers : the eighteenth century and beyond |
| Greece : leaving the empire |
| America : Indian removals in the north country |
| Brazil : slavery and emancipatoin |
| Armenians and Jews : the creation of minorities |
| Namibia : the rights of whites |
| Korea : colonial legacies and human rights in a divided country |
| The Soviet Untion : communism and the birth of the modern human rights movement |
| Palestine and Israel : trauma and triumph |
| Rwanda and Burundi : decolonizationa dn the power of race |
| Nation-states and human rights : the twenty-first century and beyond |
