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

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

Edited by Samuel Moyn · Meredith Terretta
Cambridge University Press November 2025

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ISBN-13
9781108837316
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2025
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Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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.

Table of Contents

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
5. Rights and communism
Ned Richardson-Little
6. Regional rights projects and decolonization in the twentieth century
Anne-Isabelle Richard and Stella Krepp
7. Hierarchies of rights
Barbara Keys
8. Human rights and cold war foreign policy
Michael Cotey Morgan

Part II. Forms and Fora of Rights Claiming:
9. Visions of human rights
Adam Etinson and Jiewuh Song
10. On the critique of rights
Jessica Whyte
11. Race, rights and the politics of petitioning
Emma Stone Mackinnon
12. Transnational NGOs and human rights
Jan Eckel
13. The 1993 world conference on human rights and the new rights ecosystem
14. Transitional justice, legal non-performatives and the sentiments of moving on
Kamari Maxine Clarke

Part III. Rights Causes and Their Evolution:
15. Rights without subjects: a history of children's human rights
Linde Lindkvist
16. Development as the imperialism of 'free' trade: rights, liberalism and the engineering of African economies
Alden Young and Tinashe Nyamunda
17. Economic and social human rights in the twentieth century
Steven Jensen
18. Christianity, religious rights and decolonization
Justin Reynolds
19. (Trans)gender identity and international human rights
law Sandra Duffy
20. Resistance and insistence: making postcolonial indigenous rights
Miranda Johnson
21. Health
Sara Silverstein
22. Human rights and warfare
Boyd van Dijk
23. The rights of artificial intelligence
Jim Davies
24. Rights and environmental change
Kerri Woods
25. Memorialisation, commemoration, and rights
Bonny Ibhawoh
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