Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part
of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The
contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to
define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the
political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although
human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this
history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are
a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and
contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their
assertion or violation during the past century, this volume
analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global
politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the
political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In
doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that
historians have only recently begun to explore.
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