Historical change and human rights / Olwen Hufton, editor
1995, 1st Edition. New York, N.Y. : BasicBooks. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #354579
ISBN: 0465030769
Physical description: vii, 280 pages; 22 cm. Contents: Introduction / Olwen Hufton -- Religion and human rights: the case of and for Protestantism / Patrick Collinson -- Killing a Chinese mandarin: the moral implications of distance / Carlo Ginzburg -- The ancien régime: an open system? A contribution to the study of the birth of civic liberties / Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie -- Censorship, a comparative view: France, 1789--East Germany, 1989 / Robert Darnton -- Freedom, slavery, and the modern construction of rights / Orlando Patterson -- Contested meanings: women and the problem of freedom in the mid-nineteenth-century United States / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- The extinction of human rights in Nazi Germany / Ian Kershaw. Subjects: Human rights History. Civil rights History. Law history.
Price: €10.95