The last utopia : human rights in history /

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Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moyn, Samuel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Human rights > History.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY / General
Human rights
Menschenrecht
Menschenrecht.
Mänskliga rättigheter > historia.
HUMAN RIGHTS.
JUSTICE.
HISTORY.
Nonfiction.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Humanity before human rights
  • Death from birth
  • Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement
  • The purity of this struggle
  • International law and human rights
  • The burden of morality
  • "Human rights" in Anglo-American news
  • Human rights in the 1940s
  • Human rights between 1968-1978.

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