Jean H Quataert

Advocating Dignity

Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Advocating Dignity is a detailed historical account of the emergence, development, and impact of the global human rights revolution. Drawing on graphic case studies from various global settings, it narrates the hopes and bitter struggles that have altered the course of international and domestic relations since 1945.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780812221275
• ISBN-10: 0812221273
• Artikelnr.: 30519487

Autorenporträt

Jean H. Quataert is Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and author of several books, including Staging Philanthropy: Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction. The New Moral Order: Between Human Dignity and Territorial
Sovereignty
Chapter 1. Raising the Bar, 1900-1949
PART I. AN EMERGING HUMAN RIGHTS ORTHODOXY: THE FIRST ROUND
Chapter 2. Cold War Politics and Human Rights Publics: The International
Antiapartheid and Soviet Dissident Movements, 1952-90
Chapter 3. Mothers' Courage and U.N. Monitoring of Disappearance, 1973-83
PART II. THE DEBATE CONTINUES: CRITICS AND NEW MECHANISMS
Chapter 4. The Gender Factor since the 1970s: Universality and the Private
Sphere
Chapter 5. Citizenship, Socioeconomic Rights, and the Courts in the Age of
Transnational Migrations
PART III. HUMAN RIGHTS AT A CROSSROADS: WARS, CRIMES, AND PRIORITIES
Chapter 6. Ethnic Violence, Humanitarian Intervention, and Criminal
Accountability in the 1990s
Chapter 7. September 2001 and History
Conclusion: Making a Difference
Notes
Index