Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.
Publication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780393060959 (hardcover)
- 0393060950 (hardcover)
- 323.09 22
- JC585 .H89 2007
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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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