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The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism : spectacles of suffering / Lasse Heerten,...

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  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • The Biafran War and postcolonial humanitarianism : spectacles of suffering / Lasse Heerten,...
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University press, 2017
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (xiv-398 p.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Human rights in history
ISBN
  • 978-1-107-11180-6
  • 1-107-11180-3
  • 978-1-107-53042-3
EAN
  • 9781107530423 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • Human rights in history
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 966.905 2
Note sur l'édition et l'histoire bibliographique
  • Autre tirage : 2019 (édition brochée)
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 343-392. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note de thèses et écrits académiques
  • Texte remanié de Thesis (Ph. D.) Human rights ? ?
Résumé ou extrait
  • La 4e de couv. indique : "In the summer of 1968, audiences around the globe were shocked when newspapers and TV stations confronted them with photographs of starving children in the secessionist Republic of Biafra. This global concern fundamentally changed how the Nigerian Civil War was perceived: an African civil war that had been fought for one year without fostering any substantial interest from international publics became "Biafra" - the epitome of humanitarian crisis. Based on archival research from North America, Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, this book is the first comprehensive study of the global history of the conflict. A major addition to the flourishing history of human rights and humanitarianism, it argues that the global moment "Biafra" is closely linked to the ascendance of human rights, humanitarianism, and Holocaust memory in a postcolonial world. The conflict was a key episode for the re-structuring of the relations between "the West" and the "Third World.""
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