Revisiting the origins of human rights /

"This book explores these questions through a collective effort by history, law, theology and anthropology scholars. Rather than entities with an absolute, predefined 'essence', this book conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous entities. It taps into recent 'revis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Slotte, Pamela (Editor ), Halme, Miia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Human rights.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Human rights
Menschenrecht
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : history of human rights as political intervention in the present / Martti Koskenniemi
  • Revisiting the origins of human rights : introduction / Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte
  • Part 1. Foundations : Antiquity to the Enlightenment: Human rights in antiquity? : revisiting anachronism and Roman law / Jacob Giltaij and Kaius Tuori
  • Medieval natural rights discourse / Virpi Mäkinen
  • Human rights and the Thomist tradition / Annabel Brett
  • Part 2. Pluralities of discourse and rights : the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century: Revolutionary rights / Lynn Hunt
  • Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights / Samuel Moyn
  • Constituting the imperial community : rights, common good and authority in Britain's Atlantic empire, 1607-1815 / Lauren Benton and Aaron Slater
  • Human rights discourse in women's rights conventions in the United States, 1848-70 / Kathryn Kish Sklar
  • The peace movement and human rights / Martin Ceadel
  • Socialism and the language of rights : the origins and implications of economic rights / Gregory Claeys
  • Part 3. Institutional practices and relations of rights : towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: André Mandelstam and the internationalization of human rights (1869-1949) / Dzovinar Kévonian
  • From League of Nations mandates to decolonization : a brief history of rights / Taina Tuori
  • 'Blessed are the peacemakers' : Christian internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights / Pamela Slotte
  • Lobbying for relevance : American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR / Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
  • The Cold War and the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945-8 / Olivier Barsalou
  • Afterword / Conor Gearty.

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