The volume deals with the global rise of human rights in the »long« 1970s, discussing if the decade can be considered a new departure in the history of the idea. The authors deal with a broad panoply of topics, ranging from apartheid and South American dictatorships to U.S. foreign policy and Eastern European dissidence.
American Foundations and the Coproduction of World Order in the Twentieth Century
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Helpless Imperialists : Imperial Failure, Fear and Radicalization
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Ursprünge des modernen Wirtschaftswachstums : England, China und die Welt in der Frühen Neuzeit
Peer Vries
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Breaking up Time : Negotiating the Borders between Present, Past and Future
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The Crisis of Socialist Modernity : The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1970s
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Moral für die Welt? : Menschenrechtspolitik in den 1970er Jahren
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What Makes the Nobility Noble? : Comparative Perspectives from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century
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