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Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt
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Description for Inventing Human Rights: A History
Paperback. "A tour de force."-Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HBT; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.
How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
221g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393331998
SKU
V9780393331998
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About Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era and former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews for Inventing Human Rights: A History
"Elegant... intriguing, if not audacious... Hunt is an astute historian."
Joanna Bourke - Harper's "Fast-paced, provocative, and ultimately optimistic. Declarations, she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us want to become the people they claim we are."
The New Yorker "A provocative and engaging history of the political impact of human rights."
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Joanna Bourke - Harper's "Fast-paced, provocative, and ultimately optimistic. Declarations, she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us want to become the people they claim we are."
The New Yorker "A provocative and engaging history of the political impact of human rights."
Gary J. ... Read more