Human rights in twentieth-century Australia / Jon Piccini. [electronic resource]
Human rights in twentieth-century Australia / Jon Piccini. [electronic resource]
Human rights in twentieth-century Australia / Jon Piccini. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource (x, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction: Bereft of words -- Inventing rights -- Cold War rights -- Experimental rights -- Who's rights? -- Implementing rights -- Epilogue: Cascade or trickle?
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
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2019.
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Summary
This groundbreaking study understands the 'long history' of human rights in Australia from the moment of their supposed invention in the 1940s to official incorporation into the Australian government bureaucracy in the 1980s. To do so, a wide cast of individuals, institutions and publics from across the political spectrum are surveyed, who translat...
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Human rights in twentieth-century Australia / Jon Piccini. [electronic resource]
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Human rights in history
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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74VKaz0XPg0d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0XPg0d
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ISBN
1-108-65919-5
1-108-64167-9
1-108-65823-7
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323.0994/0904
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991024402515602626
