Book of Donmon Teith

Leading scholars demonstrate how colonial subjects, national liberation movements, and empires mobilized human rights language to contest self-determination dur

This volume presents the first global history of human rights politics in the age of decolonization. The conflict between independence movements and colonial po

"This series showcases new scholarship exploring the backgrounds of human rights today. With an open-ended chronology and international perspective, the series

In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arriva

Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable