Imperialism and Human Rights Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History

Name: Imperialism and Human Rights Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History
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ISBN: 9780791469248

ISBN-10: 0791469247

ISBN-13: 9780791469248

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bonny Ibhawoh

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In this seminal study, Bonny Ibhawoh investigates the links between European imperialism and human rights discourses in African history. Using British-colonized Nigeria as a case study, he examines how diverse interest groups within colonial society deployed the language of rights and liberties to serve varied socioeconomic and political ends. Ibhawoh challenges the linear progressivism that dominates human rights scholarship by arguing that in the colonial African context, rights discourses were not simple monolithic or progressive narratives. They served both to insulate and legitimize power just as much as they facilitated transformative processes. Drawing extensively on archival…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreward


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations



The Subject of Rights and the Rights of Subjects



Right, Liberties, and the Imperial World Order



Stronger than the Maxim Gun: Law, Rights, and Justice



Confronting State Trusteeship: Land Rights Discourses



Negotiating Inclusion: Social Rights Discourses



Citizens of the World's Republic: Political and Civil Rights Discourses



The Paradox of Rights Talk


Notes


Bibliography


Index