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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.
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.
Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical because
advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places.
Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a
problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a
particular time and place. Lora Wildenthal explores the tension
between the universal and the historically specific by examining
the language of human rights in West Germany between World War II
and unification. In the aftermath of Nazism, genocide, and Allied
occupation, and amid Cold War and national division, West Germans
were especially obliged to confront issues of rights and
international law."The Language of Human Rights in West Germany"
traces the four most important purposes for which West Germans
invoked human rights after World War II. Some human rights
organizations and advocates sought to critically examine the Nazi
past as a form of basic rights education. Others developed
arguments for the rights of Germans--especially expellees--who were
victims of the Allies. At the same time, human rights were
construed in opposition to communism, especially with regard to
East Germany. In the 1970s, several movements emerged to mobilize
human rights on behalf of foreigners, both far away and inside West
Germany. Wildenthal demonstrates that the language of human rights
advocates, no matter how international its focus, can be understood
more fully when situated in its domestic political context.
When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning
in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same
time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as
a great nationalistic endeavor. In "German Women for Empire,
1884-1945" Lora Wildenthal untangles the varied strands of racism,
feminism, and nationalism that thread through German women's
efforts to participate in this episode of overseas
colonization.
In confrontation and sometimes cooperation with men over their
place in the colonial project, German women launched nationalist
and colonialist campaigns for increased settlement and new state
policies. Wildenthal analyzes recently accessible Colonial Office
archives as well as mission society records, periodicals, women's
memoirs, and fiction to show how these women created niches for
themselves in the colonies. They emphasized their unique importance
for white racial "purity" and the inculcation of German culture in
the family. While pressing for career opportunities for themselves,
these women also campaigned against interracial marriage and
circulated an image of African and Pacific women as sexually
promiscuous and inferior. As Wildenthal discusses, the German
colonial imaginary persisted even after the German colonial empire
was no longer a reality. The women's colonial movement continued
into the Nazi era, combining with other movements to help turn the
racialist thought of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries into the hierarchical evaluation of German citizens as
well as colonial subjects.
Students and scholars of women's history, modern German history,
colonial politics and culture, postcolonial theory, race/ethnicity,
and gender will welcome this groundbreaking study.
Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German
colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark
book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this
volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the
United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and
career (1945-2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany's
formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and
1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods
such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in
German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany's
postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar
Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and
the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the
relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability,
sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi
representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of
race. The volume's disciplinary reach extends to musicology,
religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary
analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany
must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those
pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination. Eric Ames
is an assistant professor of German at the University of
Washington. Marcia Klotz is an instructor in the English department
at Portland State University. Lora Wildenthal is an associate
professor of history at Rice University. Sander L. Gilman is
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory
University and the author of Fat Boys: A Slim Book (Nebraska 2004).
"Germany's Colonial Pasts" is a wide-ranging study of German
colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark
book "Colonial Fantasies," and extending her analyses there, this
volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the
United States. It also commemorates Zantop's distinguished life and
career (1945-2001). Some essays in this volume focus on Germany's
formal colonial empire in Africa and the Pacific between 1884 and
1914, while others present material from earlier or later periods
such as German emigration before 1884 and colonial discourse in
German-ruled Polish lands. Several essays examine Germany's
postcolonial era, a complex period that includes the Weimar
Republic, Nazi Germany with its renewed colonial obsessions, and
the post-1945 era. Particular areas of emphasis include the
relationship of anti-Semitism to colonial racism; respectability,
sexuality, and cultural hierarchies in the formal empire; Nazi
representations of colonialism; and contemporary perceptions of
race. The volume's disciplinary reach extends to musicology,
religious studies, film, and tourism studies as well as literary
analysis and history. These essays demonstrate why modern Germany
must confront its colonial and postcolonial pasts, and how those
pasts continue to shape the German cultural imagination.
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