Human rights in the twentieth century / edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig, editor.

Series:

Human rights in history.

Human rights in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: genealogies of human rights / Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Part I. The Emergence of Human Rights Regimes: gt1. The end of civilization and the rise of human rights: the mid-twentieth 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. dtPersonalism, community, and the origins of human rights / Samuel Moyn; 5. René; Cassin: Les droit de l'homme and the universality of human rights, 1945-1966 / 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, 1948-1958 / 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, 1971-1974 / A. Dirk Moses

Part V. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Global Condition: 13. African nationalists and human rights, 1940s-1970s / Andreas Eckert; 14. The International Labour Organization and the globalization of rights, 1944-1970 / Daniel Roger Maul; 15. 'Under a magnifying glass': the international human rights campaign against Chile in the seventies / Jan Eckel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

9786612930850

0511921667

9780511921667

9780511928376

OCLC:

693761254