UID:
almafu_9959240789802883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9786612930850
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0511921667
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9780511921667
Series Statement:
Human rights in history
Content:
Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: genealogies of human rights /
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The Emergence of Human Rights Regimes: gt1.
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The end of civilization and the rise of human rights: the mid-twentieth century disjuncture /
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The 'human rights revolution' at work: displaced persons in post-war Europe /
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'Legal diplomacy': law, politics, and the genesis of postwar European human rights /
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Postwar Universalism and Legal Theory:
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René; Cassin: Les droit de l'homme and the universality of human rights, 1945-1966 /
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Rudolf Laun and the human rights of Germans in occupied and early West Germany /
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Human Rights, State Socialism, and Dissent:
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Embracing and contesting: the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-1958 /
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Soviet rights-talk in the post-Stalin era /
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Charter 77 and the Roma: human rights and dissent in socialist Czechoslovakia /
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Genocide, Humanitarianism, and the Limits of Law:
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Toward world law? Human rights and the failure of the legalist paradigm of war /
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'Source of embarrassment': human rights, state of emergency, and the wars of decolonization /
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The United Nations, humanitarianism, and human rights: war crimes/genocide trials for Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh, 1971-1974 /
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Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Global Condition:
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African nationalists and human rights, 1940s-1970s /
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The International Labour Organization and the globalization of rights, 1944-1970 /
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'Under a magnifying glass': the international human rights campaign against Chile in the seventies /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-14257-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-19426-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921667
