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Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches - Hardcover

Georg Brandes (author) & William Banks (editor)

 
9780299324100: Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0299324109 ISBN 13: 9780299324100
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

Synopsis

Georg Brandes was known as the "Father of the Modern Breakthrough" for his influence on Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. A prominent writer, thinker, and speaker, he often examined intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's pieces that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples. By collecting, annotating, and contextualizing these works, Banks reintroduces Brandes as a major progenitor of thinking about the rights of national minorities and the colonized.

Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples includes thirty-five essays and published speeches from the early twenty-first century on subjects as diverse as the Boxer Rebellion, displaced peoples from World War I, Finland's Jewish population, and imperialism. This collection will interest interdisciplinary scholars of human rights as well as those who study Scandinavian intellectual and literary history.

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About the Author

William Banks is an independent scholar and a translator on the Digital Currents project from Roskilde University.

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Publisher
The University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299324109
ISBN 13 
9780299324100
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
368