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The last utopia : human rights in history
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- ISBN: 9780674064348 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0674064348 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780674058545 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0674058542 (ebook)
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337 p. ; 21 cm. - Edition: 1st Belknap Press of Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in hardcover in 2010. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Humanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- Epilogue: The burden of morality -- Appendixes. "Human rights" in Anglo-American news ; Human rights in the 1940s ; Human rights between 1968-1978. |
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| Subject: | Human rights History |
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| 250 | . | ‡a1st Belknap Press of Harvard University Press pbk. ed. | |
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| 300 | . | ‡a337 p. ; ‡c21 cm. | |
| 500 | . | ‡aOriginally published in hardcover in 2010. | |
| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡aHuman rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.--From publisher description. | |
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