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- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: history of human rights as political intervention in the present
- Book part
- 1 Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
- Part I Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- Part II Pluralities of discourses and rights: the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century
- Part III Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword: history of human rights as political intervention in the present
- Book part
- 1 Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
- Part I Foundations: Antiquity to the Enlightenment
- Part II Pluralities of discourses and rights: the Enlightenment and single-issue causes in the nineteenth century
- Part III Institutional practices and relations of rights: towards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Index
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- Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights , pp. xix - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015