Reclaiming American Virtue - The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s

About the author

Barbara J. Keys is Associate Professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Melbourne.

Summary

Human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma, Barbara Keys shows. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans looked outward for ways to restore their moral leadership. From world’s judge to world’s policeman was a small step, and intervention in the name of human rights because a cause both the left and right could embrace.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara J. Keys, Keys Barbara J.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2014
• EAN: 9780674724853
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72485-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, Human rights, civil rights, c 1970 to c 1980