Lora Wildenthal

The Language of Human Rights in West Germany

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Language of Human Rights in West Germany traces the four most important purposes for which West Germans invoked human rights after World War II. Lora Wildenthal demonstrates that human rights comprise a political language, best understood in its own domestic and historical context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244489
• ISBN-10: 0812244486
• Artikelnr.: 35563153

Autorenporträt

Lora Wildenthal is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Rice University, and author of German Women for Empire, 1884-1945.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Human Rights Activism in Occupied and Early West Germany: The
Case of the German League for Human Rights
Chapter 2. Rudolf Laun and "German Human Rights" in Occupied and Early West
Germany
Chapter 3. Human Rights Activism as Domestic Politics: The International
League for Human Rights, West German Amnesty, and the Humanist Union
Confront Adenauer's West Germany
Chapter 4. "German Human Rights" Enter the Mainstream: The Case of Otto
Kimminich
Chapter 5. Human Rights for Women across Cultural Lines: Terre des Femmes
Conclusion
A Note on Sources
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments