Revisiting the origins of human rights

Halme, Miia, (editor.). Slotte, Pamela, (editor.).

Summary: "This book explores these questions through a collective effort by history, law, theology and anthropology scholars. Rather than entities with an absolute, predefined 'essence', this book conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous entities. It taps into recent 'revisionist' debates, and asks: what do we really know of the history of human rights?"--

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ISBN: 9781107514911
ISBN: 9781107107649
ISBN: 1107107644
ISBN: 9781316374931
ISBN: 9781316228074
ISBN: 1316374939
ISBN: 131622807X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 398 pages)
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Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Copyright: �2015

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General Note:	CatMonthString:january.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword : history of human rights as political intervention in the present / Martti Koskenniemi -- Revisiting the origins of human rights : introduction / Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte -- Part 1. Foundations : Antiquity to the Enlightenment: Human rights in antiquity? : revisiting anachronism and Roman law / Jacob Giltaij and Kaius Tuori -- Medieval natural rights discourse / Virpi M�akinen -- Human rights and the Thomist tradition / Annabel Brett -- Part 2. Pluralities of discourse and rights : the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century: Revolutionary rights / Lynn Hunt -- Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights / Samuel Moyn -- Constituting the imperial community : rights, common good and authority in Britain's Atlantic empire, 1607-1815 / Lauren Benton and Aaron Slater -- Human rights discourse in women's rights conventions in the United States, 1848-70 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- The peace movement and human rights / Martin Ceadel -- Socialism and the language of rights : the origins and implications of economic rights / Gregory Claeys -- Part 3. Institutional practices and relations of rights : towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Andr�e Mandelstam and the internationalization of human rights (1869-1949) / Dzovinar K�evonian -- From League of Nations mandates to decolonization : a brief history of rights / Taina Tuori -- 'Blessed are the peacemakers' : Christian internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights / Pamela Slotte -- Lobbying for relevance : American internationalists, French civil libertarians and the UDHR / Miia Halme-Tuomisaari -- The Cold War and the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945-8 / Olivier Barsalou -- Afterword / Conor Gearty.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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