{"product_id":"the-human-rights-revolution-an-international-history-paperback","title":"The Human Rights Revolution: An International History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAkira Iriye\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePetra Goedde\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eWilliam I. Hitchcock\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights revolution grew rapidly to subsume claims from minorities, women, the politically oppressed, and marginal communities across the globe. The human rights revolution began with a disarmingly simple idea: that every individual, whatever his or her nationality, political beliefs, or ethnic and religious heritage, possesses an inviolable right to be treated with dignity. From this basic claim grew many more, and ever since, the cascading effect of these initial rights claims has dramatically shaped world history down to our own times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe contributors to this volume look at the wave of human rights legislation emerging out of World War II, including the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Nuremberg trial, and the Geneva Conventions, and the expansion of human rights activity in the 1970s and beyond, including the anti-torture campaigns of Amnesty International, human rights politics in Indonesia and East Timor, the emergence of a human rights agenda among international scientists, and the global campaign female genital mutilation. The book concludes with a look at the UN Declaration at its 60th anniversary. Bringing together renowned senior scholars with a new generation of international historians, these essays set an ambitious agenda for the history of human rights.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAkira Iriye\u003c\/strong\u003e is Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of \u003cem\u003eCultural Internationalism and World Order\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePetra Goedde\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Temple University and the author of \u003cem\u003eGIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam I. Hitchcock\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732952969523,"sku":"9780195333145","price":94.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/O4jD_k_eB89780195333145.webp?v=1763913506","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-human-rights-revolution-an-international-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}