{"product_id":"the-breakthrough-9780812223316","title":"The Breakthrough","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Breakthrough is the first collection to examine key developments in both Western and non-Western engagement with human rights in the period between the 1960s and the 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating collection of essays . . . an eclectic set of readings bringing in perspectives from around the globe on human rights developments during the 1970s.\" * \u003ci\u003eHuman Rights Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Editors Moyn and Eckel present an impressive European-American research effort to understand the efflorescence of human rights organizations and activity over the past century. . . . the superb essays in this collection make a well-documented and well-argued case.\" * Stanley N. Katz, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An outstanding volume that is poised to make a major intervention into the late twentieth-century history of global human rights politics. \u003ci\u003eThe Breakthrough\u003c\/i\u003e brings together some of the most important new work on the history of human rights in the 1970s in ways that will reshape this emergent field. Eckel and Moyn have crafted a rare and welcome collection that will be especially useful for the undergraduate and graduate classroom.\" * Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History\u003cbr\u003e —Samuel Moyn\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: Self-Determination, the Biafran War of Secession, and the 1970s Human Rights Moment\u003cbr\u003e —Lasse Heerten\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Disenchantment of Socialism: Soviet Dissidents, Human Rights, and the New Global Morality\u003cbr\u003e —Benjamin Nathans\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e —Ned Richardson-Little\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Whose Utopia? Gender, Ideology, and Human Rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin\u003cbr\u003e —Celia Donert\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"Magic Words\": The Advent of Transnational Human Rights Activism in Latin America's Southern Cone in the Long 1970s\u003cbr\u003e —Patrick William Kelly\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Shifting Sites of Argentine Advocacy and the Shape of 1970s Human Rights Debates\u003cbr\u003e —Lynsay Skiba\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Oasis in the Desert? America's Human Rights Rediscovery\u003cbr\u003e —Daniel Sargent\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Human Rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the Late 1970s\u003cbr\u003e —Carl J. Bon Tempo\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. The Polish Opposition, the Crisis of the Gierek Era, and the Helsinki Process\u003cbr\u003e —Gunter Dehnert\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. \"Human Rights Are Like Coca-Cola\": Contested Human Rights Discourses in Suharto's Indonesia, 1968-1980\u003cbr\u003e —Brad Simpson\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Why South Africa? The Politics of Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain in the Long 1970s\u003cbr\u003e —Simon Stevens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. The Rebirth of Politics from the Spirit of Morality: Explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e —Jan Eckel\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405703323991,"sku":"9780812223316","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223316.jpg?v=1730493334","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-breakthrough-9780812223316","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}