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The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 5: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 5: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Author: Samuel Moyn; Meredith Terretta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108837316
Published In: November 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The concept of a right, and the idea of human rights, were familiar abstractions on the brink of the twentieth century. But the history of political mobilization since shows that human rights had a transformative capacity in that century that no prior age had demonstrated. Through the twentieth century, human rights became institutionalized internationally in laws, movements, and organizations that transcended state-based citizenship and governance – which irrevocably changed the politics around them. Rights continued to evolve as the imperial world order transitioned to a postcolonial world of sovereign states as a primary form of political organization.

Through twenty-six essays from experts around the world demonstrating how this period is historically distinctive, volume five of The Cambridge History of Rights is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for the history of rights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

General editor introduction

Nehal Bhuta, Anthony Pagden and Mira L. Siegelberg

Introduction

Samuel Moyn and Meredith Terretta

1. Genealogies and human rights Ben Golder

Part I. Rights, Politics and Mobilization Around the World:

2. Women's rights in international politics, 1900 –1967

Jean Quataert deceased

3. Rights and empire

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and José Pedro Monteiro

4. Human rights and self-determination

Umut Özsu