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Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.
By: Hunt, Lynn Avery
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TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.Description: 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780393060959 (hardcover); 0393060950 (hardcover).Subject(s): Human rights -- History | Human rights in literature | Torture -- HistoryDDC classification: 323.09 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
"Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.
"Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run.
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