1st edition. Language: English. ISBN: 0198262892. EAN: 9780198262893.

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.

Physical description; 1161 pp. 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 frist Cyprus case -- 19. The outcome of the two applications -- 20. Coming in, rather reluctantly, from the cold. Subjects; Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950 November 5). Human rights Europe. Law, Politics & Government.



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BZDB318 Unbranded ISBN: 0198262892 EAN: 9780198262893 Simpson, A. W. B. (Alfred William Brian) Human rights and the end of empire : Britain and the genesis of the European Convention / A.W. Brian Simpson