Sovereign Emergencies by Patrick William Kelly HARDBACK 9781107163249

Sovereign Emergencies\nby Patrick William Kelly\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Patrick William Kelly\nTitle: Sovereign Emergencies\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781107163249\nISBN-10: 1107163242\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights advocacy and the site of a series of significant developments for regional and global human rights politics. Drawing on case studies of Brazil, Chile, and Arg.