Human Rights Revolution An International History

Name: Human Rights Revolution An International History
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ISBN: 9780195333145

ISBN-10: 0195333144

ISBN-13: 9780195333145

Edition: 2012

Authors: Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, William I. Hitchcock

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/27/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

William I. Hitchcock is assistant professor of history and associate director of International Security Studies at Yale University.



Contributors


Introduction: Human Rights as History, by Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde



The Human Rights Revolution



The Recent History of Human Rights




The Holocaust and the "Human Rights Revolution": A Reassessment




"Constitutionalizing" Human Rights: The Rise of the Nuremberg Principles




Human Rights and the Laws of War: The Geneva Conventions of 1949




Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany 1945-1949




Are Women 'Human'? The U.N. and the Struggle to Recognize Women's Rights as Human Rights




The Globalization of Human Rights History



Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights




'The First Right':The Carter Administration, Indonesia and the Transnational Human Rights Politics of the 1970s




Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights 'Boom' in the United States




From the Center-Right: Freedom House and Human Rights in the 1970s and 1980s




"For Our Soviet Colleagues": Scientific Internationalism, Human Rights and the Cold War




"Principles Overwhelming Tanks": Human Rights and the End of the Cold War




The Right to Bodily Integrity: Women's Rights as Human Rights and the International Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation, 1970s-1990s




Is History a Human Right? Japan and Korea's Troubles with the Past




Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights



Index