The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 5, the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108837316)

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.

Author: Samuel Moyn
ISBN-10: 110883731X
ISBN-13: 9781108837316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2026
Pages: 648
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.54lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.40w x 1.49d