Human Rights and the Uses of History, Paperback - Samuel Moyn

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

Reducere. Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is base...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Samuel MoynIn Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured a...

Reducere. "No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."--Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal"Moyn breaks new ground i...

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The...

Reducere. Five leading thinkers on the concept of "rights" in an era of rightlessness

How the case to abolish conflict failed and heralded the era of 'forever wars'.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Samuel MoynNumber of pages: 416Publ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. Neustadt"A convincing case that careful analysis of the history, issues, individuals, and institutions can lead ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history,...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

This edition comprises Austin's best known works; "The Province of Jurisprudence Determined", a classic work of moral, legal and political philosop...

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our imp...

Reducere. In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are ch...

Reducere. Exploring the issue of rights and citizenship, Revolutionary France, French Revolution and Human Rights uses original translations and commentary o...

Presents concepts in interdisciplinary social studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the...

In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those wh...

DescriptionHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda R...

DescriptionHow and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or...

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law. Using international refugee law's analyt...

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism

This systematic overview of the main arguments made against human rights is the first of its kind. It proposes a strong democratic defence of human...

DescriptionEyewitnessing evaluates the place and potency of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of ima...

This book studies the way in which medieval ways of knowing the Oriental 'other' were constructed around the idea of a utopic East as located in th...

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be plannedPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Richard SennettNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 20...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 366Collection: R...

Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

DescriptionIn What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--...

Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk, Ana Rodriguez Navas reveals go...

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for n...

Examines human rights issues in the Occupied Territories and lays out plans for a lasting peace.Publisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Mazin B. QumsiyehN...

Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revuls...

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the c...

This book draws on the experiences of the indigenous movement in Myanmar to explore how the local construction of indigenous identities connects co...

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

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A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the w...

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Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice - Jim Ife

Reducere. The first volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the Diary of Samue...

Reducere. The seventh volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the Diary of Sam...

Reducere. The eighth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the Diary of Samu...

Reducere. The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.This complete edition of the Diary of Samue...

Reducere. The sixth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel...