Inventing human rights : a history /
Hunt, Lynn, 1945-
Inventing human rights : a history / human rights : a history Lynn Hunt. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. - 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- verso page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We hold these truths to be self-evident -- Torrents of emotion: reading novels and imagining equality -- Bone of their bone: abolishing torture -- They have set a great example: declaring rights -- There will be no end of it: the consequences of declaring -- Soft power of humanity: why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run -- Appendix: Three declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948 -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index.
0393060950 (hardcover) 9780393331998 (hardcover)
2006027599
Human rights in literature.
Human rights--History.
Torture--History.
JC585 / .H89 2007
323.09
Inventing human rights : a history / human rights : a history Lynn Hunt. - 1st ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007. - 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- verso page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We hold these truths to be self-evident -- Torrents of emotion: reading novels and imagining equality -- Bone of their bone: abolishing torture -- They have set a great example: declaring rights -- There will be no end of it: the consequences of declaring -- Soft power of humanity: why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run -- Appendix: Three declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948 -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index.
0393060950 (hardcover) 9780393331998 (hardcover)
2006027599
Human rights in literature.
Human rights--History.
Torture--History.
JC585 / .H89 2007
323.09