TY - BOOK ID - 7269353 TI - The world reimagined : Americans and humans rights in the twentieth century PY - 2016 SN - 9780521829755 0521829755 9781139024549 1108721907 1316722902 1316722309 113902454X 131672350X 1316724107 1316725901 1316718700 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Human rights KW - Social change KW - War KW - Decolonization KW - Globalization KW - Transnationalism KW - World politics KW - History KW - Language KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Political aspects KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - 20th century KW - 1945-1989 KW - Coexistence (World politics) KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - Trans-nationalism KW - Transnational migration KW - International relations KW - Global cities KW - Globalisation KW - Internationalization KW - Anti-globalization movement KW - Sovereignty KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Colonization KW - Postcolonialism KW - Armed conflict (War) KW - Conflict, Armed (War) KW - Fighting KW - Hostilities KW - Wars KW - Military art and science KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Law and legislation KW - Human rights - United States - History - 20th century KW - Human rights - Language - History - 20th century KW - Social change - History - 20th century KW - War - Moral and ethical aspects - History - 20th century KW - Decolonization - History - 20th century KW - Globalization - Political aspects - History - 20th century KW - Transnationalism - Political aspects - History - 20th century KW - World politics - 1945-1989 KW - United States - Foreign relations - 1945-1989 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7269353 AB - Concerns about rights in the United States have a long history, but the articulation of global human rights in the twentieth century was something altogether different. Global human rights offered individuals unprecedented guarantees beyond the nation for the protection of political, economic, social and cultural freedoms. The World Reimagined explores how these revolutionary developments first became believable to Americans in the 1940s and the 1970s through everyday vernaculars as they emerged in political and legal thought, photography, film, novels, memoirs and soundscapes. Together, they offered fundamentally novel ways for Americans to understand what it means to feel free, culminating in today's ubiquitous moral language of human rights. Set against a sweeping transnational canvas, the book presents a new history of how Americans thought and acted in the twentieth-century world. ER -