Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford)

Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2020
• ISBN-13: 9781108916783
• Artikelnr.: 70912060

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Dawn: 1934-50
2. Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s
3. Political imprisonment and human rights, 1945-64
4. The early years of Amnesty International, 1961-4
5. 'The crisis of growth', Amnesty International 1964-68
6. 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights
7. Torture states: 1967-75
8. 'All things come to those who wait': the later 1970s
Conclusion. The winds of history.