Introduction: Human Rights as History / Akdra Iriye / Petra Goedde
Part I. The Human Rights Revolution
1. The Recent History of Human Rights / Kenneth Cmiel
2. The Holocaust and the "Human Rights Revolution": A Reassessment / G. Daniel Cohen
3. "Constitutionalizing" Human Rights: The Rise and Rise of the Nuremberg Principles / Elizabeth Borgwardt
4. Human Rights and the Laws of War: The Geneva Conventions of 1949 / William I. Hitchcock
5. Grams, Calories, and Food: Languages of Victimization, Entitlement, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann
6. Are Women "Human"? The UN and the Struggle to Recognize Women's Rights as Human Rights / Allida Black
Part II. The Globalization of Human Rights History
7. Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights / Samuel Moyn
8. "The First Right": The Carter Administration, Indonesia, and the Transnational Human Rights Politics of the 1970s / Brad Simpson
9. Anti-Torture Politics: Amnesty International, the Greek Junta, and the Origins of the Human Rights "Boom" in the United States / Barbara Keys
10. From the Center-Right: Freedom House and Human Rights in the 1970s and 1980s / Carl J. Bon Tempo
11. "For Our Soviet Colleagues": Scientific Internationalism, Human Rights, and the Cold War / Paul Rubinson
12. Principles Ovemhelming Tanks: Human Rights and the End of the Cold War / Sarah B. Snyder
13. The Right to Bodily Integrity: Women's Rights as Human Rights and the International Movement to End Female Genital Mutilation, 1970s-1990s / Kelly J. Shannon
14. Is History a Human Right? Japan and Korea's Troubles with the Past / Alexis Dudden
15. Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Mark Philip Bradley
Introduction: Human rights as history / Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde
The recent history of human rights / Kenneth Cmiel
The Holocaust and the "human rights revolution" : a reassessment / G. Daniel Cohen
"Constitutionalizing" human rights : the rise and rise of the Nuremberg principles / Elizabeth Borgwardt
Human rights and the laws of war : the Geneva Convention of 1949 / William I. Hitchcock
Grams, calories, and food : languages of victimization, entitlement, and human rights in occupied Germany, 1945-1949 / Atina Grossmann
Are women "human"? : the UN and the struggle to recognize women's rights as human rights / Allida Black
Imperialism, self-determination, and the rise of human rights / Samuel Moyn
"The first right" : the Carter Administration, Indonesia, and the transnational human rights politics of the 1970s / Brad Simpson
Anti-torture politics : Amnesty International, the Greek junta, and the origins of the human rights "boom" in the United States / Barbara Keys
From the center-right : Freedom House and human rights in the 1970s and 1980s / Carl J. Bon Tempo
"For our Soviet colleagues" : scientific internationalism, human rights, and the Cold War / Paul Rubinson
Principles overwhelming tanks : human rights and the end of the Cold War / Sarah B. Snyder
The right to bodily integrity : women's rights as human rights and the international movement to end female genital mutilation, 1970s-1990s / Kelly J. Shannon
Is history a human right? : Japan's and Korea's troubles with the past / Alexis Dudden
Approaching the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Mark Philip Bradley.