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Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780393060959 (hardcover)
  • 0393060950 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.09 22
LOC classification:
  • JC585 .H89 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
"Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run.
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Books Books Main Campus Library University of Eastern Africa, Baraton Main Stack JC585.H89 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Available 89377

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.

"Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run.

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