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  • - Spectacles of Suffering
    av Lasse (Freie Universitat Berlin) Heerten
    543 - 1 452,-

    The first transnational history of the Nigerian Civil War, exploring how the conflict, initially of marginal interest to much of the world, became 'Biafra', a global protest and media event, and a defining moment in the postcolonial history of humanitarianism, human rights, Holocaust memory and representation of the Third World.

  • - Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany
    av Germany) Richardson-Little & Ned (Universitat Erfurt
    387 - 1 237,-

    By exposing the forgotten history of human rights in East Germany, this study places the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light, and demonstrates how even a communist dictatorship could imagine itself to be a champion of human rights.

  • - The Changing Civil-Military Divide, 1914-2014
    av EDITED BY ANDREW BAR
    491,-

    This volume provides a new understanding of an issue at the heart of contemporary conflicts: distinguishing between civilians and combatants. A multi-disciplinary study of over a dozen case studies from across the world and over the last century, it upends current orthodoxies by showing the civil-military divide to be extremely dynamic.

  • - Globalization, Individual Rights, and the Making of Modern International Law
    av Christopher A. (University of California Casey
    498,-

    A broad-ranging and ambitious study of the changing relationships between countries and their nationals abroad, and the impact that mass migration played in shaping modern international law and politics.

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    465,-

    By focusing on specific instances of assertions or violations of human rights during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in the various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that emerged from these conflicts.

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    1 166,-

    By focusing on specific instances of assertions or violations of human rights during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in the various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that emerged from these conflicts.

  • - From the Great War to the Universal Declaration
    av Connecticut) Winter, Dr Jay (Yale University & Antoine (Universite de Paris I) Prost
    362 - 897,-

    Through the biography of one extraordinary man at the centre of the human rights movement, this book reveals how the political and intellectual movement emerged from the experiences of a generation who endured two world wars, and gained the momentum to ultimately enshrine the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • av Stony Brook) Hong & Young-sun (State University of New York
    543,-

    This book examines the relationship between the postwar German states and Third World liberation movements through historical analysis of humanitarian aid programs. Although these efforts functioned as an arena for Cold War power struggles, they fostered transnational collaboration. Hong brings a much-needed historical perspective to contemporary debates on global governance.

  • - A History
     
    1 426,-

    This book investigates how humanitarian photography - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries - emerged and how it operated in diverse political and social contexts, bringing together more than a dozen scholars working on the history of humanitarianism, international and nongovernmental organizations, and visual culture.

  • - The Domestication of an Illusion
    av Jorg Fisch
    387 - 1 192,-

    The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas and the twentieth-century decolonization worldwide, this book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples. It addresses the political contexts in which the right and concept were formulated and the practices developed to restrain its potentially anarchic character, its inception in anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the labor movement, its instrumentalization at the end of the First World War in a formidable duel that Wilson lost to Lenin, its abuse by Hitler, the path after the Second World War to its recognition as a human right in 1966, and its continuing impact after decolonization.

  • - Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
     
    1 043,-

    A study of the emergence and development of humanitarian intervention from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Drawing from a multitude of disciplines, it investigates the complex and controversial debates over the legitimacy of protecting humanitarian norms and universal human rights by violent as well as non-violent means.

  • - The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988
    av Eleanor (University of Manchester) Davey
    465 - 1 207,-

    An important examination of how modern humanitarian action rose through the transformation of the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey explores how the 'sans-frontieriste' movement displaced radical left third-worldism as the dominant way of approaching suffering in what was then called the third world.

  • - The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values
    av Steven L. B. Jensen
    387 - 1 231,-

    This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it was in the 1960s that universal human rights had their breakthrough. This is a ground-breaking work that places race and religion at the center of these developments and focuses on a core group of states who led the human rights breakthrough, namely Jamaica, Liberia, Ghana, and the Philippines. They transformed the norms upon which the international community today is built. Their efforts in the 1960s post-colonial moment laid the foundation - in profound and surprising ways - for the so-called human rights revolution in the 1970s, when Western activists and states began to embrace human rights.

  • - Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
    av Mark Philip (University of Chicago) Bradley
    276 - 282,-

    This book shows readers how and why human rights have become the moral language of our time. It explores the making of a twentieth-century global human rights imagination and its American vernaculars in times of war, decolonization and globalization during the transformative decades of the 1940s and 1970s.

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