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Summary:

Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence explores the relationship between the human rights movement emerging after 1945 and the increasing violence of decolonization. Based on material previously inaccessible in the archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, this comparative study uses the Mau Mau War (1952-1956) and the Algerian War (1954-1962) to examine the policies of two major imperial powers, Britain and France. Historian Fabian Klose considers the significance of declared states of emergency, counterinsurgency strategy, and the significance of humanitarian international law in both conflicts. Klose's findings from these previously confidential archives reveal the escalating violence and oppressive tactics used by the British and French military during these anticolonial conflicts in North and East Africa, where Western powers that promoted human rights in other areas of the world were opposed to the growing global acceptance of freedom, equality, self-determination, and other postwar ideals. Practices such as collective punishment, torture, and extrajudicial killings did lasting damage to international human rights efforts until the end of decolonization. Clearly argued and meticulously researched, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence demonstrates the mutually impacting histories of international human rights and decolonization, expanding our understanding of political violence in human rights discourse. Fabian Klose teaches history at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz. Dona Geyer is an independent translator based in Germany.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The new world order, 1941-1948
• Contested decolonization, 1945-1962
• The legitimation of colonial violence
• The unleashing of colonial violence
• The international discourse on human rights as marked by the wars of decolonization
• Conclusion.

Author/Creator:

Klose, Fabian , author

Languages:

English
German

Language Notes:

In English; original language in German.

Main Work:

Menschenrechte im Schatten kolonialer Gewalt [by Klose, F.] (English)

Related Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subjects:

Human rights — Kenya

Human rights — Algeria

Great Britain — Colonies — Africa

France — Colonies — Africa

Kenya — History — Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960

Algeria — History — Revolution, 1954-1962

Mau Mau Emergency (Kenya : 1952-1960)

Revolution (Algeria : 1954-1962)

1952-1962

Human rights

British colonies

French colonies

Algeria

France

Kenya

Great Britain

Africa

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 15, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-351) and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JC599.K4 K567 2013eb

ISBNs:

9780812244953 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

859160810

Other Control Numbers:

3627174 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3627174/huri