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010 _a 2006027599
020 _a0393060950 (hardcover)
020 _a9780393331998 (hardcover)
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099 _a04
_a323.09 H9419
100 1 _aHunt, Lynn,
_d1945-
245 1 0 _aInventing human rights :
_ba history /
_cLynn Hunt.
246 1 0 _ahuman rights : a history
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton & Co.,
_cc2007.
300 _a272 p. :
_bill. ;
_c22 cm.
500 _a"First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- verso page.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.
505 0 _a 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.
650 0 _aHuman rights in literature.
650 0 _aHuman rights
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTorture
_xHistory.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents only
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006027599.html
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