The last utopia human rights in history

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moyn, Samuel, 1972- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press 2012
Edición:1. paperback ed
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Epilogue: The burden of morality
  • Appendixes. "Human rights" in Anglo-American news ; Human rights in the 1940s ; Human rights between 1968-1978..