The Immutable Laws of Mankind: The Struggle for Universal Human Rights

by Alastair Davidson

Book Overview

Prologue.- Chapter 1 A World without Rights.- Chapter 2 Eyes Turned Heavenwards.- Chapter 3 When the World was New.- Chapter 4 The Open Republic, or Kafka's Doorman.- Chapter 5 Jack is Master in his own House: The Triumph of the Nation.- Chapter 6 Rousseau: A Mixed Legacy.- Chapter 7 Half Included: Human Rights and the Working Class.- Chapter 8 The Excluded: Women.- Chapter 9 The Excluded: Slaves.- Chapter 10 It Could Happen to Us. The Uniting Force of Genocide.- Chapter 11 True Believers: Human Rights in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 12 Fathering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.- Epilogue.- Bibliography.- Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401780897
• ISBN13: 9789401780896
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"