TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Lynn
TI  - Inventing human rights: a history 
SN  - 9780393060959 (hardcover)
AV  - JC585 .H89 2007
U1  - 323.09 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Human rights
KW  - History
KW  - Human rights in literature
KW  - Torture
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0620/2006027599.html
ER  -