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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62741424 Title: Imperialism and human rights : colonial discourses of rights and liberties in African history Author: Bonny Ibhawoh Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2007. ISBN/ISSN: 0791469239 9780791469231 0791469247 9780791469248 OCLC:62741424

  
  

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Imperialism and human rights : colonial discourses of rights and liberties in African history

Author:	Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher:	Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Series:	SUNY series in human rights.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Human rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century. Human rights -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 20th century. Law -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 19th century. View all subjects
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