Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108479356)

This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial powers shaped the global human rights order that emerged after the Second World War. It was also critical to the genesis of contemporary human rights organizations and humanitarian movements. Anti-colonial forces mobilized human rights and other rights language in their campaigns for self-determination. In response, European empires harnessed the new international politics of human rights for their own ends, claiming that their rule, with its promise of 'development, ' was the authentic vehicle for realizing them. Ranging from the postwar partitions and the wars of independence to Indigenous rights activism and post-colonial memory, this volume offers new insights into the history and legacies of human rights, self-determination, and empire to the present day

Author: A. Dirk Moses
ISBN-10: 1108479359
ISBN-13: 9781108479356
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2020
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2021