TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Lynn
TI  - Inventing human rights: a history 
SN  - 0393060950 (hardcover)
AV  - JC585 .H89 2007
U1  - 323.09 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Human rights in literature
KW  - Human rights
KW  - History
KW  - Torture
N1  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006027599.html
ER  -