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020 _a9780198262893
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100 _aSimpson A W Brian
245 _aHuman rights and the end of Empire : Britain and the gensis of the European convention
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2001
300 _a1161p
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365 _b Gratis
505 _aTable of contents 1. Human Rights, Fundamental Freedoms, and the World of the Common Law; 2. The Mechanisms of Repression; 3. The International Protection of Individual Rights Before 1939; 4. The Ideological Response to War: Codes of Human Rights; 5. Human Rights and the Structure of the Brave New World; 6. The Burdens of Empire; 7. The Foreign Office Establishes a Policy; 8. Beckett's Bill and the Loss of the Initiative; 9. Conflict Abroad and at Home; 10. The Growing Disillusion; 11. Britain and the Western Option; 12. From the Brussels Treaty to the Council of Europe; 13. A Convention on the Right Lines: The Rival Texts; 14. The Conclusion of Negotiations and the Rearguard Action; 15. The First Protocol; 16. Ratification and its Consequences; 17. Emergencies and Derogations; 18. The First Cyprus Case; 19. The Outcome of the Two Applications; 20. Coming In, Rather Reluctantly, From the Cold; Bibliography; Index
650 _a1. Civil Rights - History - U K 2. Civil Rights - History - Europe
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