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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

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Description for The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History Paperback. Human rights offer a vision of international justice that idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. This book elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 line. BIC Classification: HBG; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 330.
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post-World War II moment when the Universal Declaration ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
324g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674064348
SKU
V9780674064348
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About Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn is Professor of Law and Professor of History at Yale University. His interests range widely over international law, human rights, the laws of war, and legal thought in both historical and contemporary perspective. He has published several books and writes in venues such as Boston Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, New Republic, New York Times, ... Read more

Reviews for The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
The triumph of The Last Utopia is that it restores historical nuance, skepticism and context to a concept that, in the past 30 years, has played a large role in world affairs.
Brendan Simms Wall Street Journal 20100908 The way the phrase human rights is bandied about it sounds like an age-old concept. In fact, it was coined in ... Read more

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