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Inventing Human Rights
A History
Lynn Hunt
WW Norton · Print & ebook · March 25, 2008
Reading lane: Human Rights
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today?
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Why This Clicks
Rights, Made Plain
A compact history that links rights-talk to social change without losing the human scale.
Come here for
- human rights as cultural history
- clear social theory with historical sweep
Expect
- modern history, not just legal history
- an explanatory, steady narrative
Book Details
- Authors
- Lynn Hunt
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- March 25, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human Rights · Modern History
- Reading lane
- Human Rights
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Publisher Categories
Human Rights
About This Book
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread the...
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