Book Review: Reclaiming American virtue: the human rights revolution of the 1970s

Perrin, Kristen (2013) Book Review: Reclaiming American virtue: the human rights revolution of the 1970s. LSE Review of Books (02 Dec 2013). Website.

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"Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s." Barbara J. Keys. Harvard University Press. February 2014. --- In this forthcoming book, Barbara J Keys considers how the American commitment to international human rights emerged in the 1970s not as a logical outgrowth of American idealism but as a surprising response to national trauma. Keys’ focus on the American perspective offers a unique examination of an aspect of the human rights movement that is so often overlooked: the need to not only look at what concepts we embrace, but why we embrace them, writes Kristen Perrin.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	E History America > E151 United States (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JX International law
Date Deposited:	16 Jan 2014 12:28
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 18:37
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55314

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