Chapter 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History

—Samuel Moyn

Chapter 2. The Dystopia of Postcolonial Catastrophe: Self-Determination, the Biafran War of Secession, and the 1970s Human Rights Moment

—Lasse Heerten

Chapter 3. The Disenchantment of Socialism: Soviet Dissidents, Human Rights, and the New Global Morality

—Benjamin Nathans

Chapter 4. Dictatorship and Dissent: Human Rights in East Germany in the 1970s

—Ned Richardson-Little

Chapter 5. Whose Utopia? Gender, Ideology, and Human Rights at the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin

—Celia Donert

Chapter 6. "Magic Words": The Advent of Transnational Human Rights Activism in Latin America's Southern Cone in the Long 1970s

—Patrick William Kelly

Chapter 7. Shifting Sites of Argentine Advocacy and the Shape of 1970s Human Rights Debates

—Lynsay Skiba

Chapter 8. Oasis in the Desert? America's Human Rights Rediscovery

—Daniel Sargent

Chapter 9. Human Rights and the U.S. Republican Party in the Late 1970s

—Carl J. Bon Tempo

Chapter 10. The Polish Opposition, the Crisis of the Gierek Era, and the Helsinki Process

—Gunter Dehnert

Chapter 11. "Human Rights Are Like Coca-Cola": Contested Human Rights Discourses in Suharto's Indonesia, 1968-1980

—Brad Simpson

Chapter 12. Why South Africa? The Politics of Anti-Apartheid Activism in Britain in the Long 1970s

—Simon Stevens

Chapter 13. The Rebirth of Politics from the Spirit of Morality: Explaining the Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s

—Jan Eckel

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments