Human Rights and Revolutions

Human Rights and Revolutions
ISBN-10
0742555143
ISBN-13
9780742555143
Category
History
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

Description

Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights. Covering events as far removed from one another as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in late twentieth-century China, the contributors explore the paradoxes of revolutions that have both helped spur new advances in thinking about human rights and produced regimes that commit a range of abuses. Exploring the changes over time in conceptions of human rights in Western and non-Western contexts, this work offers a unique window into the history of the modern world and a fresh context for understanding today's pressing issues.

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