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Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights / Roland Burke.
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- ISBN: 9780812242195 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 081224219X (alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 234 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction. politics of decolonization and the evolution of the International Human Rights Project -- 1. Human rights and the birth of the Third World : the Bandung conference -- 2. "Transforming the end into the means" : the Third World and the right to self-determination -- 3. Putting the stamps back on : apartheid, anticolonialism, and the accidental birth of a universal right to petition -- 4. "It is very fitting" : celebrating freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights, Tehran 1968 -- 5. "According to their own norms of civilization" : the rise of cultural relativism and the decline of human rights. |
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| Subject: | Human rights. Decolonization. |
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