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Imperialism and Human Rights

By Bonny Ibhawoh

Imperialism and Human Rights

By 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 material, this book shows how the language of rights, like that of "civilization" and "modernity," became an important part of the discourses deployed to rationalize and legitimize empire.
Product details
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2006-11-09
Publication Date:
2006-11-16
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0791469239
ISBN13:
9780791469231
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
552 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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