The human rights revolution: an international history

Preface

Contributors

Introduction: Human Rights as History / Akdra Iriye / Petra Goedde

Part 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

Part 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 Ovemhelming 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

Index