A World Divided : The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States /

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A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights-a transformation that suggests tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weitz, Eric D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Human rights > International cooperation.
Human rights.
HISTORY > World.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Cooperation internationale.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Histoire.
Human rights > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Empires and rulers, the eighteenth century and beyond
  • Greece, leaving the empire
  • America, Indian removals in the North Country
  • Brazil, slavery and emancipation
  • Armenians and Jews, the creation of minorities
  • Namibia, the rights of whites
  • Korea, Colonial legacies and human rights in a divided country
  • The Soviet Union, Communism and the birth of the modern human rights movement
  • Palestine and Israel, trauma and triumph
  • Rwanda and Burundi, colonization and the power of race
  • Nation-states and human rights, the twenty-first century and beyond.

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