Overview
- Series
- Key concepts
Key concepts (Polity Press) - Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002
- Contents
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Introduction: thinking about human rights
Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights
After 1945: the new age of rights
Theories of human rights
The role of the social sciences
Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights
Idealism, realism and repression: the politics of human rights
Development and globalization: economics and human rights
Conclusion: human rights in the twenty-first century. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-194) and index.
Introduction: thinking about human rights -- Origins: the rise and fall of natural rights -- After 1945: the new age of rights -- Theories of human rights -- The role of the social sciences -- Universality, diversity and difference: culture and human rights -- Idealism, realism and repression: the politics of human rights -- Development and globalization: economics and human rights -- Conclusion: human rights in the twenty-first century.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0745623557
0745623565 (pb : alk. paper) - Physical Description
- ix, 201 p. ; 22 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Human rights.
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