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100 1 _aSpierenburg, Petrus Cornelis
245 1 4 _aThe spectacle of suffering :
_bexecutions and the evolution of repression : from a preindustrial metropolis to the European experience /
_cPieter Spierenburg.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2008.
300 _axii, 274 p. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _aIntroduction; 1. 'Power carries its own conviction': the early rise and fall of human rights, 1945-60; 2. 'The problem of freedom': the United Nations and decolonization, 1960-1; 3. From Jamaica with law: the rekindling of international human rights, 1962-7; 4. The making of a precedent: racial discrimination and international human rights law, 1962-6; 5. 'The hymn of hate': the failed convention on elimination of all forms of religious intolerance, 1962-7; 6. 'So bitter a year for human rights': 1968 and the UN International Year for Human Rights; 7. 'To cope with the flux of the future': human rights and the Helsinki Final Act, 1962-75; 8. The presence of the disappeared, 1968-93; Conclusion
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_zAmsterdam
_xHistory.
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_xHistory.
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_zEurope
_xHistory.
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