Human rights and revolutions
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Human rights and revolutions
Rowman & Littlefield, c2000
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780847687367
Description
This volume examines the paradoxical yet fundamental relationship between revolutions and the discourse of human rights as it has developed over the last four centuries.
Table of Contents
- Section 1: introductory perspectives: the paradoxical origins of human rights, Lynn Hunt
- the Chinese Revolution and contemporary paradoxes, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Section 2: Anglo-American events and traditions, human rights, and the English Revolution, David Zaret
- natural rights in the American Revolution, Michael Zuckert. Section 3: variations on European themes, Alice Bullard
- a European experience, Yanni Kotsonis. Section 4: colonial contexts and the problem of imperialism - an enlightenment for outcasts, Alexander Woodside
- what is absence made of, Florence Nernault. Section 5: views from the field - acumen of the irreconciled, Adam Michnik
- Sendero Luminoso and human rights, Carlos Iglesias. Section 6: a human rights revolution? a new age of liberal imperialism? David Rieff
- Kosovo - the war of Nato expansion, Robin Blackburn
- the strange career of radical Islam, Timothy McDaniel.
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: pbk ISBN 9780847687374
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Section 1: introductory perspectives: the paradoxical origins of human rights, Lynn Hunt
- the Chinese Revolution and contemporary paradoxes, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Section 2: Anglo-American events and traditions, human rights, and the English Revolution, David Zaret
- natural rights in the American Revolution, Michael Zuckert. Section 3: variations on European themes, Alice Bullard
- a European experience, Yanni Kotsonis. Section 4: colonial contexts and the problem of imperialism - an enlightenment for outcasts, Alexander Woodside
- what is absence made of, Florence Nernault. Section 5: views from the field - acumen of the irreconciled, Adam Michnik
- Sendero Luminoso and human rights, Carlos Iglesias. Section 6: a human rights revolution? a new age of liberal imperialism? David Rieff
- Kosovo - the war of Nato expansion, Robin Blackburn
- the strange career of radical Islam, Timothy McDaniel.
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