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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674064348 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
323.09 |
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MOY |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Moyn, Samuel |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Last Utopia : human rights in history |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harvard University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2012 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
337 p. |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
22.50 |
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USD |
| Unit of pricing |
80.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Human rights history |
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International rights law |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Human rights |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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Books |