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Table of Contents:

• The return of the prodigal: the 1970s as a turning point in human rights history / Samuel Moyn
• The dystopia of postcolonial catastrophe: self-determination, the Biafran war of secession, and the 1970s human rights moment / Lasse Heerten
• The disenchantment of socialism: Soviet dissidents, human rights, and the new global morality / Benjamin Nathans
• Dictatorship and dissent: human rights in East Germany in the 1970s / Ned Richardson-Little
• Whose utopia? Gender, ideology, and human rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin / Celia Donert
• "Magic words": the advent of transnational human rights activism in Latin America's Southern Cone in the long 1970s / Patrick William Kelly
• Shifting sites of Argentine advocacy and the shape of 1970s human rights debates / Lynsay Skiba
• Oasis in the desert? America's human rights rediscovery / Daniel Sargent
• Human rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the late 1970s / Carl J. Bon Tempo
• The Polish opposition, the crisis of the Gierek era, and the Helsinki Process / Gunter Dehnert
• "Human rights Are Like Coca-Cola": contested human rights discourses in Suharto's Indonesia, 1968-1980 / Brad Simpson
• Why South Africa? The politics of anti-apartheid activism in Britain in the long 1970s / Simon Stevens
• The rebirth of politics from the spirit of morality: explaining the human rights revolution of the 1970s / Jan Eckel.

Contributors:

Eckel, Jan.

Moyn, Samuel

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subjects:

Human rights — History — 20th century

1900-1999

Human rights

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

vi, 337 pages ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

JC571 .B678 2014

ISBNs:

9780812245509 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0812245504 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40022900673

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2013011619

OCLC Numbers:

835951464