Human Rights Revolution - An International History

Zusatztext For many faculty, it will be one of the very best introductions to the history of human rights in the modern world for both undergraduate and graduate students. The essays, by a wide range of scholars, represent some of the best work in the field and nicely survey the range of what we think we know about human rights, a quite new field of historical study. Informationen zum Autor Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus, Harvard University. Author of China and Japan in the Global Setting (1992), The Globalizing of America (1993), and Cultural Internationalism and World Order (1997), among other titles. Klappentext This volume explores the place of human rights in history, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented, with case studies focusing on the 1940s through the present. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the place of human rights in history, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented, with case studies focusing on the 1940s through the present.

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• Authors: Akira Iriye, Akira (EDT)/ Goedde Iriye
• Assisted by: Petra Goedde (Editor), Goedde Petra (Editor), William I. Hitchcock (Editor), Hitchcock William I. (Editor), Akira Iriye (Editor), Iriye Akira (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2012
• EAN: 9780195333138
• ISBN: 978-0-19-533313-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time; Reinterpreting History: How Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Politikwissenschaft, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LAW / Public, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights