The Cambridge History of Rights : Volume 5, the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781108837316
- ISBN-10: 110883731X
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: November 2025
- Dimensions: 9.12 x 6.4 x 1.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.54 pounds
- Page Count: 648
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