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This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present.This fully updated volume examines the complex relationships between Western concepts of human rights and developments in other world regions. After providing background on relevant premodern concepts and constraints, the book explores regional interactions with human rights, the disastrous impact of imperialism and racism, the recurrent expansion of the range of rights given to those including women and children, and indigenous rights from the 19th century to the present. Major revisions for the second edition include: a new chapter focusing on recent historical and interdisciplinary debates a separate chapter on developments between the world wars greater attention to causation and an expanded treatment of some regions, including Africa an analysis of the mix of setbacks and rights expansion during the past 15 years, within the global framework.Human Rights in World History is essential reading for students, scholars, and researchers interested in modern history, human rights, and political science.
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Human Rights in World History
Defended by a host of passionate advocates and organizations, certain standard human rights have come to represent a quintessential component of global citizenship. There are, however, a number of societies that dissent from this orthodoxy, either in general or on particular issues, on the basis of political necessity, cultural tradition, or group interest.
Human Rights in World History takes a global historical perspective to examine the emergence of this dilemma and its constituent concepts. Beginning with premodern features compatible with a human rights approach, including religious doctrines and natural rights ideas, it goes on to describe the rise of the first modern-style human rights statements, associated with the Enlightenment and contemporary anti-slavery and revolutionary fervor. Along the way, it explores ongoing contrasts in the liberal approach, between sincere commitments to human rights and a recurrent sense that certain types of people had to be denied common rights because of their perceived backwardness and need to be civilized. These contrasts find clear echo in later years with the contradictions between the pursuit of human rights goals and the spread of Western imperialism.
By the second half of the 20th century, human rights frameworks had become absorbed into key global institutions and conventions, and their arguments had expanded to embrace multiple new causes. In todays postcolonial world, and with the rise of more powerful regional governments, the tension between universal human rights arguments and local opposition or backlash is more clearly delineated than ever but no closer to satisfactory resolution.
Peter N. Stearns is Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia. He is Series Editor for Routledges Themes in World History and founder and editor of the Journal of Social History . He is co-author of Premodern Travel in World History (2008) and author of Childhood in World History (2nd edition, 2010), Globalization in World History (2009), Sexuality in World History (2009), Gender in World History (2nd edition, 2006), and Western Civilization in World History (2003)all in this series.
Themes in World History
Series editor: Peter N. Stearns
The Themes in World History series offers focused treatment of a range of human experiences and institutions in the world history context. The purpose is to provide serious, if brief, discussions of important topics as additions to textbook coverage and document collections. The treatments will allow students to probe particular facets of the human story in greater depth than textbook coverage allows, and to gain a fuller sense of historians analytical methods and debates in the process. Each topic is handled over timeallowing discussions of changes and continuities. Each topic is assessed in terms of a range of different societies and religionsallowing comparisons of relevant similarities and differences. Each book in the series helps readers deal with world history in action, evaluating global contexts as they work through some of the key components of human society and human life.
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Human Rights in World History
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Human Rights in World History
Peter N. Stearns
First published 2012
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2012 Peter N. Stearns
The right of Peter N. Stearns to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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Stearns, Peter N.
Human rights in world history / Peter N. Stearns. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Themes in world history)
ISBN: 978-0-415-50795-0 (hbk) -- ISBN: 978-0-415-50796-7 (pbk) -- ISBN:
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Human rights in world history / Peter N. Stearns. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Themes in world history)
ISBN: 978-0-415-50795-0 (hbk) -- ISBN: 978-0-415-50796-7 (pbk) -- ISBN:
978-0-203-11995-2 (ebk) 1. Category. 2. Category. 3. Category.
LVVPD number
ISBN: 978-0-415-50795-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-50796-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-11995-2 (ebk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-50796-7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-11995-2 (ebk)
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Acknowledgments
A number of people encouraged me in this topic and provided valuable guidance; particular thanks to Carol Gould. Christiane M. Abu Sarah offered exceptionally creative assistance with the research. Laura Bell performed her usual wonders in manuscript preparation. My wife, Donna Kidd, suffered my enthusiasms and distractions with her usual good cheer. My thanks to the editorial group at Routledge, which has been exceptionally supportive. And I thank, as well, my world history students at George Mason, drawn from many countries, who offer valuable perspectives on a complex topic.
Preface
One of the most important challenges in globalization today involves the recognition that each major society has its own distinctive values and culture. These cultural values, in turn, have usually formed over many centuries and offer deep meaning and identity to most members of that society. The values will differ from one society to the next, and a key goal of contemporary global understanding involves appreciation and acceptance of these differences. Gone are the old imperialist assumptions when one societythe Westcould presume that its standards should be imposed worldwide, because all other regions were inferior. As imperialism is cast aside, and more nations rise to significant claims to economic and political power, its essential that we learn how to tolerate and accommodate differences. One size does not fit all, and peace in an interconnected world requires that contemporary publicsparticularly in the societies with a strong imperialist pastcome to terms with that fact. Reasonable coexistence and simple justice both demand flexibility.
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