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A compelling, hugely original account of the multiple prehistories, each with their own zigzag trajectories, ironies, and subplots, that eventually converged to make the marvelous achievement of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006 possible. Deep research, sharp insights, and captivating portraits of self-advocates and allies across the globe. -- Dagmar Herzog, author of <i>The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century</i> This excellent study goes far beyond merely placing the struggle for disability rights in the broader story of human rights. The two transformed each other, Progress from the Margins shows. As good at capturing individual characters as institutional and legal developments, Paul van Trigt writes in a nonteleological mode, establishing a persuasive account of moral and legal change across crucial decades in the last fifty years. -- Samuel Moyn, author of <i>The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History</i>

A compelling, hugely original account of the multiple pre-histories, each with their own zigzag trajectories, ironies, and subplots, that eventually converged to make the marvelous achievement of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006 possible. Deep research, sharp insights, and captivating portraits of self-advocates and allies across the globe. -- Dagmar Herzog, author of <i>The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century</i>

A compelling, hugely original account of the multiple prehistories, each with their own zigzag trajectories, ironies, and subplots, that eventually converged to make the marvelous achievement of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006 possible. Deep research, sharp insights, and captivating portraits of self-advocates and allies across the globe. -- Dagmar Herzog, author of <i>The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century</i> This excellent study goes far beyond merely placing the struggle for disability rights in the broader story of human rights. The two transformed each other, Progress from the Margins shows. As good at capturing individual characters as institutional and legal developments, Paul van Trigt writes in a nonteleological mode, persuasively establishing a persuasive account of moral and legal change across crucial decades in the last fifty years. -- Samuel Moyn, author of <i>The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History</i>

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Paul van Trigt is an assistant professor of social history at Leiden University. He is a coeditor of Marginalized Groups, Inequalities and the Post-War Welfare State: Whose Welfare? (2020).

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