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Hunt, Lynn

Inventing human rights : a history - New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2008 - 272 p. ; ill., 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy.

ISBN: 9780393331998

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights History
International Law
Torture History
Civil Rights
Political Freedom
Torture
Human rights

Dewey Class. No.: 323.09 / HUN