Human rights in Canada : a history / / Dominique Clément

• Autore: Clément Dominique <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ontario : , : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, , [2016]; ©2016; Ottawa, Ontario : , : Canadian Electronic Library, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.0971
• Soggetto topico: Human rights - Canada - History; Human rights - Social aspects - Canada; Droits de l'homme (Droit international) - Canada - Histoire
• Soggetto genere / forma: Libros electronicos.
• Note generali: Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Liberty and State Formation -- CHAPTER 2 Civil Liberties in Canada -- CHAPTER 3 Human Rights Beginnings -- CHAPTER 4 The Rights Revolution -- CHAPTER 5 Contesting Human Rights -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book shows how human rights became the primary language for social change in Canada and how a single decade became the locus for that emergence. The author argues that the 1970s was a critical moment in human rights history one that transformed political culture, social movements, law, and foreign policy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Human rights in Canada
• ISBN: 1-77112-165-3; 1-77112-164-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910155160303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Laurier studies in political philosophy series.