Eight historians trace the impact of historical change on the evolution of human rights. This volume covers a vast historical canvas, addressing topics as diverse as slavery, the extension of human rights during the Reformation, and their extinction under Nazism in Germany.
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vii, 280 pages; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction / Olwen Hufton -- Religion and human rights: the case of and for Protestantism / Patrick Collinson -- Killing a Chinese mandarin: the moral implications of distance / Carlo Ginzburg -- The ancien régime: an open system? A contribution to the study of the birth of civic liberties / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- Censorship, a comparative view: France, 1789--East Germany, 1989 / Robert Darnton -- Freedom, slavery, and the modern construction of rights / Orlando Patterson -- Contested meanings: women and the problem of freedom in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- The extinction of human rights in Nazi Germany / Ian Kershaw. Subjects: Human rights History. Civil rights History. Law history. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 354579
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: vii, 280 pages; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction / Olwen Hufton -- Religion and human rights: the case of and for Protestantism / Patrick Collinson -- Killing a Chinese mandarin: the moral implications of distance / Carlo Ginzburg -- The ancien régime: an open system? A contribution to the study of the birth of civic liberties / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- Censorship, a comparative view: France, 1789--East Germany, 1989 / Robert Darnton -- Freedom, slavery, and the modern construction of rights / Orlando Patterson -- Contested meanings: women and the problem of freedom in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- The extinction of human rights in Nazi Germany / Ian Kershaw. Subjects: Human rights History. Civil rights History. Law history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 354579