Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics

by Roland Burke

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108479359
• ISBN13: 9781108479356
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"