Hunt, Lynn,  1945- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/> "First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- verso page. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0393060950 (hardcover) 9780393331998 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006027599 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights in literature.<br/>Human rights--History.<br/>Torture--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC585  / .H89 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.09