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Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (Human Rights in History) - Softcover

Book 34 of 36: Human Rights in History
 
9781009005111: Social Rights and the Politics of Obligation in History (Human Rights in History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1009005111 ISBN 13: 9781009005111
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

A pioneering study in the history of social rights, filling a significant gap in human rights scholarship and practice.

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About the Authors

Steven L. B. Jensen is Senior Researcher at The Danish Institute for Human Rights. He is author of the multiple prize-winning book The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization and the Reconstruction of Global Values (2016) and co-editor of Histories of Global Inequality: New Perspectives (2019). He has previously worked for the UNAIDS and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Charles Walton is Reader in History at the University of Warwick. He is author of the prize-winning Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny and the Problem of Free Speech (2009) and editor of Into Print: Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment (2012) and a special issue on social rights in French History (2019). He has previously taught at Sciences Po and Yale University.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009005111
ISBN 13 
9781009005111
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
352
Editor
Jensen