Decolonization and the evolution of international human rights

Burke, Roland. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780812242195 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 081224219X (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
234 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction. politics of decolonization and the evolution of the International Human Rights Project -- 1. Human rights and the birth of the Third World : the Bandung conference -- 2. "Transforming the end into the means" : the Third World and the right to self-determination -- 3. Putting the stamps back on : apartheid, anticolonialism, and the accidental birth of a universal right to petition -- 4. "It is very fitting" : celebrating freedom in the Shah's Iran, the First World Conference on Human Rights, Tehran 1968 -- 5. "According to their own norms of civilization" : the rise of cultural relativism and the decline of human rights.