Description
Product ID: | 9781107531079 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Human Rights in History |
Title: | The Making of International Human Rights |
Subtitle: | The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values |
Authors: | Author: Steven L. B. Jensen |
Page Count: | 326 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, History, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: human rights, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human rights, International human rights law, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The history of human rights is a history of our times. This book offers a remarkable reinterpretation, showing how key Third World states during the 1960s initiated the 'human rights revolution'. They changed international norms and Western politics, challenged the Communist world, and made human rights central to global politics. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2017-02-02 |