Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights

ISBN: 9781107514911 出版年：2015 页码：420 Pamela Slotte Miia Halme-Tuomisaari Cambridge University Press

Foreword. History of human rights as political intervention in the present Martti Koskenniemi 1. Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte Part I. Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment: 2. Human rights in antiquity? Revisiting anachronism and Roman law Jacob Giltaij and Kaius Tuori 3. Medieval natural rights discourse Virpi Makinen 4. Human rights and the Thomist tradition Annabel Brett Part II. Pluralities of Discourses and Rights: The Enlightenment and Single-issue Causes in the Nineteenth Century: 5. Revolutionary rights Lynn Hunt 6. Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights Samuel Moyn 7. Constituting the Imperial community: rights, common good, and authority in Britain's Atlantic empire, 1607-1815 Lauren Benton and Aaron Slater 8. Human rights discourse in women's rights conventions in the United States, 1848-70 Kathryn Kish Sklar 9. The peace movement and human rights Martin Ceadel 10. Socialism and the language of rights: the origins and implications of economic rights Gregory Claeys Part III. Institutional Practices and Relations of Rights: Toward the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 11. Andre Mandelstam and the internationalization of human rights (1869-1949) Dzovinar Kevonian 12. From League of Nations mandates to decolonization: a brief history of rights Taina Tuori 13. 'Blessed are the peacemakers': Christian internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights Pamela Slotte 14. Lobbying for relevance: American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR Miia Halme-Tuomisaari 15. The Cold War and the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945-8 Olivier Barsalou 16. Afterword Conor Gearty.