Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.
Material type:
- 0393060950 (hardcover)
- 9780393331998 (hardcover)
- human rights : a history [Portion of title]
- 323.09 22
- JC585 .H89 2007
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قاعة الكتب - الدور الثاني | المكتبة المركزبة الجديدة - جامعة القاهرة | 323.09 H9419 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 01000110197736000 |
"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.
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