Human rights and revolutions /
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| Imprint: | Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2000. |
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| Description: | xii, 253 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4367843 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 253 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0847687368 (alk. paper) 0847687376 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
