Rene Cassin and Human Rights: From The Great War To The Universal Declaration (Human Rights in History) - Softcover

Winter, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107655706 ISBN 13: 9781107655706

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Presents a new interpretation of the history of human rights through the biography of a key player in the movement.

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About the Authors

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He has published widely on the history of the First World War, and is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War in Péronne, France. He is author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the world's leading authority on the history of French veterans' movements and the history of French education, and has written extensively on twentieth-century social and cultural history. He is co-author with Jay Winter of The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107655706
• ISBN 13: 9781107655706
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 424