Required Reading

• Nitza Berkovitch, From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women’s Rights and International Organisations (1999).
• J. Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War (2007)
• R. Burke, Decolonization the Evolution of International Human Rights (2010)
• M. Ishay, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (2004)
• P. Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (2003)
• M. Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea (2012)
• S. Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)
• A. Neier, The International Human Rights Movement: A History (2012)
• A. Iriye, P. Goedde & W. Hitchcock (eds), The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (2012)
• S. Hoffman, Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2011)
• M. A. Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2002)

Other Reading

• N. Berkovitch, From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women’s Rights and International Organisations (1999).
• T. Buchanan, ‘Human Rights Campaigns in Modern Britain’ in Nick Crowson, Matthew Hilton & J. McKay (ed.), NGOs in Britain: Non-State actors in Society and Politics Since 1945 (2009).
• R. Burke, Decolonization the Evolution of International Human Rights (2010)
• R. Burke, ‘From Individual Rights to National Development: The First UN International Conference on Human Rights, Tehran 1968’, Journal of World History, 19: 3 (September 2008): 275-296.
• J. Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War (2007)
• Kenneth Cmiel, ‘The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the United States’, The Journal of American History, 86, 3 (1999), pp. 1231-1250.
• M. A. Glendon, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2002)
• S. Hoffman (ed), Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (2011)
• M. Hilton, Prosperity for all: Consumer Activism in an era of Globalization (2009)
• M. Hilton, ‘International Aid and Development NGOs in Britain and Human Rights since 1945’, Humanity, 3:3 (2012).
• L. Hunt, Inventing Human Rights (2007)
• A. Iriye, P. Goedde & W. Hitchcock (eds), The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (2012)
• M. Ishay, The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era (2004)
• M. Ishay, ‘What are Human Rights? Six Historical Controversies’, Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 359-371.
• P. Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government (2006)
• P. Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (2003)
• M. Mazower, ‘The Strange Triumph of Human Rights’, The Historical Journal, 47, 2 (2004), pp. 379-398.
• M. Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea (2012)
• M. Mazower, No Enchanted Palace. The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of Human Rights (2009)
• S. Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010)
• A. Neier, International Human Rights Movement: A History (2012)
• S. Snyder, Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War (2012)
• J. Winter, Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century (2006)