UID:
almahu_9947414004302882
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 398 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781316228074 (ebook)
Content:
Did the history of human rights begin decades, centuries or even millennia ago? What constitutes this history? And what can we really learn from 'the textbook narrative' - the unilinear, forward-looking tale of progress and inevitable triumph authored primarily by Western philosophers, politicians and activists? Does such a distinguishable entity as 'the history of human rights' even exist, or are efforts to read evidence in past events of the later 'evolution' of human rights mere ideology? This book explores these questions through a collective effort by scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology. Rather than entities with an absolute, predefined 'essence', this book conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous. It taps into recent 'revisionist' debates and asks: what do we really know of the history of human rights?
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).
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Human rights in antiquity? Revisiting anachronism and Roman law /
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Medieval natural rights discourse /
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Human rights and the Thomist tradition /
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Revolutionary rights /
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Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights /
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Constituting the imperial community : rights, common good and authority in Britain's Atlantic empire, 1607-1815 /
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Human rights discourse in women's rights conventions in the United States, 1848-70 /
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The peace movement in human rights /
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Socialism and the language of rights : the origins and implications of economic rights /
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André Mandelstam and the internationalization of human rights (1869-1949) /
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From League of Nations mandates to decolonization : a brief history of rights /
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'Blessed are the peacemakers' : Christian internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights /
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Lobbying for relevance : American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR /
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The Cold War and the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945-8 /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107107649
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Law
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316228074
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