Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.
By: Hunt, Lynn
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BookPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007Description: 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780393331998 (pbk).Subject(s): Human rights -- History | Human rights in literature | Torture -- HistoryDDC classification: 323.09 Online resources: Table of contents only
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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