Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 What Are Human Rights and Where Do They Come from?
- Chapter 2 From War and Politics to Human Rights: The Cold War and Colonial Recession
- Chapter 3 Protecting State Sovereignty from the “Dangers” of Human Rights
- Chapter 4 Saving Empire: The Attempt to Create (Non)-Universal Human Rights
- Chapter 5 A Human Rights Treaty that Permits Lynching?
- Chapter 6 The United States’ Unequivocal Ambivalence toward Socioeconomic Rights
- Epilogue
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 What Are Human Rights and Where Do They Come from?
- Chapter 2 From War and Politics to Human Rights: The Cold War and Colonial Recession
- Chapter 3 Protecting State Sovereignty from the “Dangers” of Human Rights
- Chapter 4 Saving Empire: The Attempt to Create (Non)-Universal Human Rights
- Chapter 5 A Human Rights Treaty that Permits Lynching?
- Chapter 6 The United States’ Unequivocal Ambivalence toward Socioeconomic Rights
- Epilogue
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014