Human Rights and RevolutionsJeffrey N. Wasserstrom Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 225 páginas Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in late twentieth-century China, the contributors explore the paradoxes of revolutionary and human rights projects. The book convincingly shows the ways in which revolutions have both helped spur new advances in thinking about human rights and produced regimes that commit a range of abuses. Providing an unusually balanced analysis of the changes over time in conceptions of human rights in Western and non-Western contexts, this work offers a unique window into the history of the world during modern times and a fresh context for understanding today's pressing issues. Contributions by: Florence Bernault, Mark Philip Bradley, Sumit Ganguly, Greg Grandin, James N. Green, Lynn Hunt, Yanni Kotsonis, Timothy McDaniel, Kristin Ross, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Alexander Woodside, Marilyn B. Young, David Zaret, and Michael Zuckert |
Índice
The Paradoxical Origins of Human Rights | 3 |
The Chinese Revolution and Contemporary Paradoxes | 21 |
The English American and Russian Revolutions | 45 |
Tradition Human Rights and the English Revolution | 47 |
Natural Rights in the American Revolution The American Amalgam | 65 |
Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary Russia | 83 |
Asian and African Case Studies | 95 |
An Enlightenment for Outcasts Some Vietnamese Stories | 97 |
A Human Rights Revolution? | 137 |
Homosexuality Human Rights and Revolution in Latin America | 139 |
Ethics and the Rearmament of Imperialism The French Case | 155 |
The Strange Career of Radical Islam | 169 |
A Concluding Perspective | 189 |
Human Rights and Empires Embrace A Latin American Counterpoint | 191 |
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About the Contributors | 223 |
India Human Rights and Asian Values | 111 |
What Absence Is Made Of Human Rights in Africa | 121 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Human Rights and Revolutions Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom,Lynn Hunt,Marilyn Blatt Young Pré-visualização limitada - 2000 |
Human Rights and Revolutions Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom,Greg Grandin,Lynn Hunt,Marilyn B. Young Pré-visualização limitada - 2007 |
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