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The human rights revolution : an international history / edited by Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, and William I. Hitchcock

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New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
xiv, 353 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:
Iriye, Akira, Goedde, Petra, 1964-, and Hitchcock, William I.

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Human Rights Revolution -- 1.The Recent History of Human Rights / Kenneth Cmiel -- 2.The Holocaust and the "Human Rights Revolution": A Reassessment / G. Daniel Cohen -- 3."Constitutionalizing" Human Rights: The Rise and Rise of the Nuremberg Principles / Elizabeth Borgwardt -- 4.Human Rights and the Laws of War: The Geneva Conventions of 1949 / William I. Hitchcock -- 5.Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann -- 6.Are Women "Human"? The UN and the Struggle to Recognize Women's Rights as Human Rights / Allida Black -- pt. II The Globalization of Human Rights History -- 7.Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights / Samuel Moyn -- 8."The First Right": The Carter Administration, Indonesia, and the Transnational Human Rights Politics of the 1970s / Brad Simpson -- 9.Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights "Boom" in the United States / Barbara Keys -- 10.From the Center-Right: Freedom House and Human Rights in the 1970s and 1980s / Carl J. Bon Tempo -- 11."For Our Soviet Colleagues": Scientific Internationalism, Human Rights, and the Cold War / Paul Rubinson -- 12.Principles Overwhelming Tanks: Human Rights and the End of the Cold War / Sarah B. Snyder -- 13.The Right to Bodily Integrity: Women's Rights as Human Rights and the International Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation, 1970s-1990s / Kelly J. Shannon -- 14.Is History a Human Right? Japan and Korea's Troubles with the Past / Alexis Dudden -- 15.Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Mark Philip Bradley.
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9780195333138 (alk. paper)
0195333136 (alk. paper)
9780195333145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195333144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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