In The Ambivalence of Good, Jan Eckel portrays the story of human rights as polycentric, demonstrating how actors in various locales imbue them with widely different meanings.
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The term of one hundred days for which volunteers from the States of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin volunteered, under the call of their respective governors, in the months of May and June, to aid in the campaign of General Sherman, having expired, the President directs an official acknowledgment to be made of their patriotic service. It was their good fortune to render efficie...
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Jan Eckel, The Ambivalence of Good: Human Rights in International Politics since the 1940s
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