Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-507) and index.
Contents:
A world without rights -- Eyes turned heavenwards -- When the world was new -- The open republic, or Kafka's doorman -- Jack is master in his own house : the triumph of the nation -- Rousseau -- Human rights and the working class -- The excluded : women -- The excluded : slaves -- It could happen to us : the uniting force of genocide -- Human rights in the nineteenth century -- Fathering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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