Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig

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Produktbeschreibung

Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511853418
• Artikelnr.: 37827868

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann; Part I. The Emergence of Human Rights
Regimes: 1. The end of civilization and the rise of human rights: the
mid-20th century disjuncture Mark Mazower; 2. The 'human rights revolution'
at work: displaced persons in post-war Europe G. Daniel Cohen; 3. Legal
diplomacy: law, politics, and the genesis of postwar European human rights
Mikael Rask Madsen; Part II. Postwar Universalism and Legal Theory: 4.
Personalism, community, and the origins of human rights Samuel Moyn; 5.
René Cassin: les droit de l'homme and the universality of human rights,
1945-66 Glenda Sluga; 6. Rudolf Laun and the human rights of Germans in
occupied and early West Germany Lora Wildenthal; Part III. Human Rights,
State Socialism, and Dissent: 7. Embracing and contesting: the Soviet Union
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-58 Jennifer Amos; 8.
Soviet rights-talk in the post-Stalin era Benjamin Nathans; 9. Charter 77
and the Roma: human rights and dissent in socialist Czechoslovakia Celia
Donert; Part IV. Genocide, Humanitarianism, and the Limits of Law: 10.
Toward world law? Human rights and the failure of the legalist paradigm of
war Devin O. Pendas; 11. 'Source of embarrassment': human rights, state of
emergency, and the wars of decolonization Fabian Klose; 12. The United
Nations, humanitarianism and human rights: war crimes/genocide trials for
Pakistani soldiers in Bangladesh, 1971-4 A. Dirk Moses; Part V. Human
Rights, Sovereignty, and the Global Condition: 13. African nationalists and
human rights, 1940s to 1970s Andreas Eckert; 14. The International Labour
Organization and the globalization of rights, 1944-70 Daniel Roger Maul;
15. 'Under a magnifying glass': the international human rights campaign
against Chile in the 1970s Jan Eckel.