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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.

Human rights --- Social change --- War --- Decolonization --- Globalization --- Transnationalism --- World politics --- History --- Language --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Political aspects --- United States --- Foreign relations --- 20th century --- 1945-1989 --- Coexistence (World politics) --- Peaceful coexistence --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Anti-globalization movement --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- Military art and science --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Law and legislation --- Human rights - United States - History - 20th century --- Human rights - Language - History - 20th century --- Social change - History - 20th century --- War - Moral and ethical aspects - History - 20th century --- Decolonization - History - 20th century --- Globalization - Political aspects - History - 20th century --- Transnationalism - Political aspects - History - 20th century --- World politics - 1945-1989 --- United States - Foreign relations - 1945-1989