Inventing human rights : a history - Hunt, Lynn, 1945- (New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.
Keywords: Human rights -- History; Human rights in literature; Torture -- History