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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Główni autorzy:Weitz, Eric D. (Autor)
Format: Książka
Język:English
Wydane:Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Seria:Human rights and crimes against humanity
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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