A Most Uncertain Crusade : : The United States, the United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941-1953 /

A Most Uncertain Crusade : : The United States, the United Nations, and Human Rights, 1941-1953 / / Rowland Brucken.

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A Most Uncertain Crusade traces and analyzes the emergence of human rights as both an international concern and as a controversial domestic issue for U.S. policy makers during and after World War II. Historian Brucken focuses on officials in the State Department, at the United Nations, and within ce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Brucken, Rowland,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Origins of a Crusade
  • 1. Defining a Crusade, 1941-1943
  • 2. Implementing a Vision, 1943-1945
  • 3. A Conservative Revolution Begins, 1945-1948
  • 4. Opposition at Home and at the United Nations, 1948-1951
  • 5. United Nations Success Breeds Failure at Home, 1945-1950
  • 6. The End of a Crusade, 1951-1953
  • Conclusion: The Impact of a Crusade, 1953-2011
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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