Quataert Jean Helen - The Routledge history of human rights

The Routledge History of Human Rights is an interdisciplinary collection that provides historical and global perspectives on a range of human rights themes of the past 150 years.

The volume is made up of 34 original contributions. It opens with the emergence of a new internationalism in the mid-nineteenth century, examines the interwar, League of Nations, and the United Nations eras of human rights and decolonization, and ends with the serious challenges for rights norms, laws, institutions, and multilateral cooperation in the national security world after 9/11. These essays provide a big picture of the strategic, political, and changing nature of human rights work in the past and into the present day, and reveal the contingent nature of historical developments. Highlighting local, national, and non-Western voices and struggles, the volume contributes to overcoming Eurocentric biases that burden human rights histories and studies of international law. It analyzes regions and organizations that are often overlooked. The volume thus offers readers a new and broader perspective on the subject.

International in coverage and containing cutting-edge interpretations, the volume provides an overview of major themes and suggestions for future research. This is the perfect book for those interested in social justice, grass roots activism, and international politics and society.

Jean H. Quataert is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Binghamton University, USA and co-editor of the Journal of Womens History (201020). She has published many books and articles, including Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations in Global Politics (2009) and A New Look at International Law: Gendering the Practices of Humanitarian Medicine in Europes Small Wars, 18791907, Human Rights Quarterly, 2018, vol. 40, no. 3, 54769.

Lora Wildenthal is John Antony Weir Professor of History and Associate Dean of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA. She is the author of German Women for Empire, 18841945 (2001) and The Language of Human Rights in West Germany (2013).

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Jennifer Adair is Assistant Professor of History at Fairfield University. Her current research examines the restoration of democracy in Latin America following decades of military dictatorship and fiscal crisis. She is the author of In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina, forthcoming in 2019.

Lori G. Beaman, PhD, FRSC, is the Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change and Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She was Principal Investigator of the Religion and Diversity Project, a 37-member international research team whose focus was religion and diversity (www.religionanddiversity.ca). Recent books include Deep Equality in an Era of Religious Diversity (2017), and Rethinking Reasonable Accommodation: Muslims and the Navigation and Negotiation of the Everyday (2018), co-authored with Jennifer Selby and Amlie Barras. She has published numerous articles, including Living Together v. Living Well Together: A Normative Examination of the SAS Case, Social Inclusion, 2017, vol. 4, no. 2, 313; Recognize the New Religious Diversity, Canadian Diversity, 2017, vol. 14, no. 4, 1719; and Transcendence/Religion to Immanence/Nonreligion in Assisted Dying, International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 2018, vol. 11, no. 2, 12943, co-authored with Cory Steele. She is the 2017 recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadas Impact Award in the Insight Category. Beaman also holds an Honorary Doctorate from Uppsala University.

Laura A. Belmonte is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. A specialist in the history of US foreign relations, she is author of