A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, sociological and ethnographic studies, and oral histories to foreground Romani activists as subjects and actors. Through a vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia, she provides a new interpretation of the history of human rights by highlighting the role of Socialist regimes in...

This book focuses on Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the most influential statement on religious freedom in human history.

Shows how Latin America was the crucible of the global human rights revolution of the 1970s.

Shows how Latin America was the crucible of the global human rights revolution of the 1970s.

The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.

The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.

Major new study of the political and intellectual origins of modern humanitarianism from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Why are civilian populations targeted in modern wars despite laws and ethical claims insisting on civilian protections? This book offers answers.

This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.