This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Recorded lectures. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary. There will be a reading week in week 6 of the MT and the LT. Students will be expected to read essential primary and secondary material for each weekly meeting, to participate fully in class discussions and offer an assessed presentation.? Both presentations and participation will form part of summative assessment.
There will be two essays of 2,000 words to be submitted in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Michael Barnett, Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism (Ithaca, 2011) Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde and William Hitchcock (eds.), The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (Oxford, 2012) R. Ishay, The History of Human Rights, (Berkeley, 2004) Jenny S Martinez, The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law (New York, 2012) Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia, (Harvard, 2010) Jack N Rakove, Declaring Rights: a brief history with documents (Boston, 1998) Gary J Bass, Freedom?s Battle: the Origins of Humanitarian Intervention (New York, 2008)Richard A Bauman, Human Rights in Ancient Rome (New York, 2000)Robin Blackburn, American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation, and Human Rights (New York, 2011)Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America?s Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge Mass, 2006)Christopher Leslie Brown, Moral Capital: the Foundations of British Abolitionism, (Chapel Hill, 2006)Roland Burke, Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights (Philadelphia, 2010)Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (ed.) Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge 2011)Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights. A History. (New York/London, 2007)John Hutchinson, Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross, (Boulder, 1996)Michael Ignatieff, Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (Princeton, 2001)Margaret E Keck and Kathryn Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy networks in International Politics (Ithaca, 1998)Martti Koskenniemi The Gentle Civiliser of Nations: the rise and fall of International Law, 1870-1960, (Cambridge, 2002)Pauline Maier, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence (New York, 1997)Johannes Morsink, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: origins, drafting, and intent (Philadelphia, 1999)Roger Normand and Sarah Zaidi, Human Rights at the UN: the Political History of Universal Justice (Bloomington, 2007)Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual. The Origins of Western Liberalism (London, 2014)AWB Simpson, Human Rights and the End of Empire: Britain and the Genesis of the European Convention (Oxford, 2001)Dale Van Kley (ed.), The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of the Rights of 1789 (Stanford, 1994)
Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Class participation (15%) and presentation (15%) in the MT and LT.