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

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

by Tom Buchanan
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom BuchananSeries:Human Rights in HistoryPublish date:2020-06-04Pages:356
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107566552ISBN-10:110756655XUPC:9781107566552Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Civil RightsBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.90 x 6.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCPQGAS7R2
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107566552ISBN-10:110756655XUPC:9781107566552Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Civil RightsBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.90 x 6.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCPQGAS7R2
Buchanan, Tom: - 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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