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Author: Akira Iriye (Professor of History Emeritus, Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University) , Petra Goedde (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Temple University) , William I. Hitchcock (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Virginia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
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Width: 22.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 15.00cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780195333145
ISBN 10: 0195333144
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 16 February 2012
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
"Contributors Introduction: Human Rights as History, by Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde Part I: The Human Rights Revolution 1. Kenneth J. Cmiel, The Recent History of Human Rights 2. G. Daniel Cohen, The Holocaust and the ""Human Rights Revolution"": A Reassessment 3. Elizabeth Borgwardt, ""Constitutionalizing"" Human Rights: The Rise of the Nuremberg Principles 4. William I. Hitchcock: Human Rights and the Laws of War: The Geneva Conventions of 1949 5. Atina Grossmann, Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany 1945-1949 6. Allida Black, Are Women 'Human'? The U.N. and the Struggle to Recognize Women's Rights as Human Rights Part II. The Globalization of Human Rights History 7. Samuel Moyn, Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights 8. Brad Simpson, 'The First Right':The Carter Administration, Indonesia and the Transnational Human Rights Politics of the 1970s 9. Barbara Keys, Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights 'Boom' in the United States 10. Carl J. Bon Tempo, From the Center-Right: Freedom House and Human Rights in the 1970s and 1980s 11. Paul Rubinson, ""For Our Soviet Colleagues"": Scientific Internationalism, Human Rights and the Cold War 12. Sarah B. Snyder, ""Principles Overwhelming Tanks"": Human Rights and the End of the Cold War 13. Kelly J. Shannon, The Right to Bodily Integrity: Women's Rights as Human Rights and the International Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation, 1970s-1990s 14. Alexis Dudden, Is History a Human Right? Japan and Korea's Troubles with the Past 15. Mark Philip Bradley, Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Index"
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One of the very best introductions to the history of human rights in the modern world for both undergraduate and graduate students. The essays, by a wide range of scholars, represent some of the best work in the field and nicely survey the range of what we think we know about human rights, a quite new field of historical study...The contributions are well edited and cohere as a volume in a manner that few collections of conference papers do. Highly recommended. CHOICE
<br> The Human Rights Revolution is an excellent volume that strongly advances an emerging field of historical research. Together, the individual chapters illuminate a wide range of topics. They provide an engaged, critical perspective on the most important issue of our time. --Eric D. Weitz, University of Minnesota <br><p><br> By their very nature as universal claims, human rights demand an international history. With this path-breaking and highly readable volume, that history takes a quantum leap forward. --Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania<p><br>
Author Information
Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of Cultural Internationalism and World Order. Petra Goedde is Associate Professor of History at Temple University and the author of GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949. William I. Hitchcock is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author of The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe.
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