The conservative human rights revolution : European identity, transnational politics, and the origins of the European convention / Marco Duranti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duranti, Marco, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Court of Human Rights--History.

European Court of Human Rights.

Human rights--Europe--History.

Human rights--European Union countries--History.

Civil rights--Europe--History.

Civil rights--European Union countries--History.

Civil rights.

Human rights.

History.

Europe.

European Union countries.

Local Subjects:

European Court of Human Rights.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 507 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Part 1 European Memory, Human Rights Law, and the Romantic Origins of International Justice (1899-1950)

1 The Romance of International Law 13

2 Internationalism Between Nostalgia and Technocracy 49

3 Churchill, Human Rights, and the European Project 96

4 Postwar Reconciliation, Colonialism, and Cold War Human Rights 164

Part 2 Free-Market Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the European Convention on Human Rights (1944-1959)

5 Neoliberal Human Rights in Postwar Britain 215

6 Neomedieval Human Rights in the Shadow of Vichy 255

7 Catholic Human Rights in Postwar France 290

8 Rethinking the ECHR's Original Intent 321

Part 3 Reflections on the Conservative Human Rights Revolution in Postwar Europe (1946-1950)

9 The Ethical Foundations of European Integration 345

10 Human Rights and Conservative Politics 361

11 Revolution and Restoration in the History of Human Rights 385.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Duranti, Marco, author. Conservative human rights revolution.

ISBN:

9780199811380

0199811385

OCLC:

952277063

Publisher Number:

99970375739