Human Rights and Revolutions - Softcover

 
9780847687374: Human Rights and Revolutions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0847687376 ISBN 13: 9780847687374
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000

Synopsis

This original and important book examines the paradoxical yet fundamental relationship between revolutions and the discourse of human rights as it has developed over the last four centuries. In a multidisciplinary collection of essays, which includes pieces by activists as well as scholars, contributors compare times and places as remote from each other as seventeenth-century England and contemporary Kosovo, bringing to bear ideas and methodologies associated with disciplines ranging from cultural history to political philosophy. In doing so, they seek to shed light on a crucial conundrum: on the one hand, revolutionary regimes often have been responsible for horrific human rights abuses, and yet on the other, revolutionary struggles often serve as a crucible to elevate appreciation for the importance of human rights.

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About the Author

\Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is associate professor of history at Indiana University. Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of French History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Marilyn B. Young is professor of history at New York University.

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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0847687376
ISBN 13 
9780847687374
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272
Editor
Wasserstrom Jeffrey N., Hunt Lynn, Young Marilyn B.

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