Inventing Human Rights: A History

Inventing Human Rights: A History
ISBN-10
0393060950
ISBN-13
9780393060959
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Lynn Hunt

Description

Traces the history of human rights from the origins of the concept in the eighteenth-century American Declaration of Independence and French Declaration of the Rights of Man, through their momentous eclipse in the nineteenth century, to their culmination as a principle with the United Nations' proclamation of 1948.

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