Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945-1977

by Tom Buchanan

Book Overview

In this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as 'human rights activists'. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110756655X
• ISBN13: 9781107566552
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"