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The human rights revolution : an international history /

Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights revolution grew rapidl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Iriye, Akira, Goedde, Petra, 1964-, Hitchcock, William I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Colección:Reinterpreting history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Human rights as history / Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde
  • The recent history of human rights / Kenneth Cmiel
  • The Holocaust and the "human rights revolution" : a reassessment / G. Daniel Cohen
  • "Constitutionalizing" human rights : the rise and rise of the Nuremberg principles / Elizabeth Borgwardt
  • Human rights and the laws of war : the Geneva Convention of 1949 / William I. Hitchcock
  • Grams, calories, and food : languages of victimization, entitlement, and human rights in occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann
  • Are women "human"? : the UN and the struggle to recognize women's rights as human rights / Allida Black
  • Imperialism, self-determination, and the rise of human rights / Samuel Moyn
  • "The first right" : the Carter Administration, Indonesia, and the transnational human rights politics of the 1970s / Brad Simpson
  • Anti-torture politics : Amnesty International, the Greek junta, and the origins of the human rights "boom" in the United States / Barbara Keys
  • From the center-right : Freedom House and human rights in the 1970s and 1980s / Carl J. Bon Tempo
  • "For our Soviet colleagues" : scientific internationalism, human rights, and the Cold War / Paul Rubinson
  • Principles overwhelming tanks : human rights and the end of the Cold War / Sarah B. Snyder
  • The right to bodily integrity : women's rights as human rights and the international movement to end female genital mutilation, 1970s-1990s / Kelly J. Shannon
  • Is history a human right? : Japan's and Korea's troubles with the past / Alexis Dudden
  • Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Mark Philip Bradley.