Inventing Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Hunt is distinguished research professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era , and a former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today. Zusammenfassung “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Hunt, Hunt Lynn
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393331998
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33199-8
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 208 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: specific events & topics, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, History: specific events and topics, Human rights, civil rights