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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