The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) - Hardcover
Synopsis
This book focuses on international human rights. It explores the transformation of a world patterned by centuries of traditional structures of authority, gender abuse, racial prejudice, class divisions and slavery, colonial empires, and claims of national sovereignty into a global community.
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Review
"It is difficult to imagine a finer gift on the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights than this study of the Declaration's complex and far-reaching impact. Paul Gordon Lauren has skillfully combined a detailed history of the legal documents with the political, philosophical, and social context in which they developed."-American Historical Review "This volume is a model of scholarship. It shows how visionaries and diplomats, NGOs and governments, moved from the almost totally unquestioned pre-WWII doctrine of domestic sovereignty to the current reality of global awareness and of obligations to internal human rights practices."-Choice "The fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights produced many commemorative events, among the most significant of which is this beautifully written and meticulously researched history of the idea of human rights... Among the many pleasures of reading this book is discovering the richness of the human rights tradition... To read in this book how far we have come and how far we still have to go is an inspiration to the activist and a challenge to the idle."-The American Journal of International Law "The most comprehensive and exhaustively researched history of human rights ideas and the institutions to implement those ideas that has been written to date... An indispensable reference source for scholars and students of human rights."-Political Science Quarterly "Lauren's commanding scholarship and at many points his original research establish the seriousness and credibility of his treatment of the origins of modern human rights... An important resource for teaching human rights."-Human Rights Quarterly "A beautifully written and meticulously researched history of the idea of human rights."-American Journal of International Law "A great book that will remain compulsory reading."-Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights "This is a text which should be on the desk of every practitioner in the field of human rights."-New Zealand International Review
About the Author
Paul Gordon Lauren is Regents Professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of a number of books, including Power and Prejudice. He has lectured widely and delivered invited addresses, at the Smithsonian Institution and the United Nations, on the subject of human rights.
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