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Tom Buchanan - Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977

Av Tom Buchanan

Del i serien Human Rights in History

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In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration to many new activist movements in 'the field of human rights', and helped to affect major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across the globe.
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Tom Buchanan is Professor of Modern British and European History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Spanish Civil War and the British Labour Movement (1991), Britain and the Spanish Civil War (1997), and The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain: War, Loss and Memory (2007). He has also published Europe's Troubled Peace, 1945 to the present (2006/2012), East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976 (2012) and his most recent publication is a co-edited book on the centenary of the Balkan Wars titled War in the Balkans (2015).

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'This is a major intervention in the study of human rights. Buchanan's enthralling history of Amnesty International is superbly researched and written. It explores one of the key organizations involved in developing both the conceptual and practical meaning of human rights – itself one of the defining terms of the post-war period. Transnational in its range across the British empire, Chile, Greece and beyond, it offers refreshing new perspectives on British political culture from the 1940s to 1970s.' Lawrence Black, University of York

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