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Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393060950 (hardcover)
  • 9780393331998 (hardcover)
Other title:
  • human rights : a history [Portion of title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.09 22
LOC classification:
  • JC585 .H89 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Books Books 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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