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Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780393060959 (hardcover)
  • 0393060950 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.09 22
LOC classification:
  • JC585 .H89 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: "We hold these truths to be self-evident" -- 1. "Torrents of Emotion": Reading Novels and Imagining Equality -- 2. "Bone of Their Bone": Abolishing Torture -- 3. "They Have Set a Great Example": Declaring Rights -- 4. "There Will Be No End of It": The Consequences of Declaring -- 5. The Soft Power of Humanity: Why Human Rights Failed, Only to Succeed in the Long Run -- Appendix. Three Declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948.
Item type: Book
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.

Introduction: "We hold these truths to be self-evident" -- 1. "Torrents of Emotion": Reading Novels and Imagining Equality -- 2. "Bone of Their Bone": Abolishing Torture -- 3. "They Have Set a Great Example": Declaring Rights -- 4. "There Will Be No End of It": The Consequences of Declaring -- 5. The Soft Power of Humanity: Why Human Rights Failed, Only to Succeed in the Long Run -- Appendix. Three Declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948.

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