Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How to think about rights in early modern Europe
  • Early modern rights regimes
  • When did rights become "rights"?
  • From the wars of religion to the dawn of enlightenment
  • From liberalism to liberty: natural rights in the French enlightenment
  • The laws of nature in neo-stoicism and science
  • Rights and revolutions
  • Natural constitutionalism and American rights
  • From nature to nation: French revolutionary rights
  • Conclusion: a stand-in for the Universal Declaration: 1789-1948.