Book contents
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: history of human rights as political intervention in the present
- Book part
- 1 Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
- Part I Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- Part II Pluralities of discourses and rights: the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century
- Part III Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 11 André Mandelstam and the internationalization of human rights (1869–1949)
- 12 From League of Nations Mandates to decolonization: a brief history of rights
- 13 ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’: Christian internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights
- 14 Lobbying for relevance: American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR
- 15 The Cold War and the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945–8
- 16 Afterword
- Index
14 - Lobbying for relevance: American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR
from Part III - Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: history of human rights as political intervention in the present
- Book part
- 1 Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
- Part I Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- Part II Pluralities of discourses and rights: the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century
- Part III Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 11 André Mandelstam and the internationalization of human rights (1869–1949)
- 12 From League of Nations Mandates to decolonization: a brief history of rights
- 13 ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’: Christian internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights
- 14 Lobbying for relevance: American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR
- 15 The Cold War and the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945–8
- 16 Afterword
- Index
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- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights , pp. 330 - 361Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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