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Elizabeth Borgwardt - New Deal for the World - 9780674025363 - V9780674025363
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New Deal for the World

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Description for New Deal for the World Paperback. Describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Num Pages: 480 pages, 30 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 702.

In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime.

Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of “war and peace aims.” In attempting to globalize what U.S. planners heralded as domestic New Deal ideas about security, the ideology of the Atlantic Charter—buttressed by FDR’s “Four Freedoms” and the legacies of World War I—redefined human rights and America’s vision for the world.

Three sets of international negotiations brought ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674025363
SKU
V9780674025363
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About Elizabeth Borgwardt
Elizabeth (Kopelman) Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

Reviews for New Deal for the World
Borgwardt's meticulously researched study shows how a few war-inspired phrases from Churchill and Roosevelt metamorphosed into moral principles that transformed overseas empire and domestic racism from facts of life into scandals demanding attention. Every reader of U.S. history and international relations will have to confront the evidence presented in this learned, surprising, and indispensable book, which demonstrates the profound
and unanticipated
consequences ... Read more

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