- Bib ID:
- 2199112
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Freeman, Michael, 1936-
- Description:
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- Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002
- ix, 201 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0745623557 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- 0745623565 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Key concepts (Polity Press)
- Summary:
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"The book will appeal to students in the social sciences, as well as students of human rights law who want an introduction to the non-legal aspects of their subject. It will also be read by scholars interested in ethics and the social sciences, as well as the general reader."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction: Thinking about Human Rights
- 2. Origins: the Rise and Fall of Natural Rights
- 3. After 1945: the New Age of Rights
- 4. Theories of Human Rights
- 5. The Role of the Social Sciences
- 6. Universality, Diversity and Difference: Culture and Human Rights
- 7. Idealism, Realism and Repression: the Politics of Human Rights
- 8. Development and Globalization: Economics and Human Rights
- 9. Conclusion: Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century.
- Notes:
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- Reprinted in paperback in 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Human rights
- Copyright:
-
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