Human Rights and Revolutions

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Greg Grandin is professor of history at New York University. Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of French History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Marilyn B. Young is professor of history at New York University. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Human Rights and RevolutionsPart I: Two Opening PerspectivesChapter 1: The Paradoxical Origins of Human Rights Chapter 2: The Chinese Revolution and Contemporary ParadoxesPart II: The English, American, and Russian RevolutionsChapter 3: Tradition, Human Rights, and the English RevolutionChapter 4: Natural Rights in the American Revolution: The American AmalgamChapter 5: A European Experience: Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary RussiaPart III: Asian and African Case StudiesChapter 6: An Enlightenment of Outcasts: Some Vietnamese Stories Chapter 7: India, Human Rights, and Asian Values Chapter 8: What Absence Is Made Of: Human Rights in Africa Part IV: A Human Rights Revolution?Chapter 9: (Homo)sexuality, Human Rights, and Revolution in Latin America Chapter 10: Ethics and the Rearmament of Imperialism: The French CaseChapter 11: The Strange Career of Radical IslamPart V: A Concluding PerspectiveChapter 12: Human Rights and Empire's Embrace: A Latin American Counterpoint...

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• Authors: Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. Grandin Wasserstrom
• Assisted by: Greg Grandin (Editor), Lynn Hunt (Editor), Hunt Lynn (Editor), Jeffrey N Wasserstrom (Editor), Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom (Editor), Wasserstrom Jeffrey N. (Editor), Young Marilyn B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2007
• EAN: 9780742555143
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5514-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Human rights, civil rights, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions