Inventing Human Rights: A History

Author/Contributor(s):	Hunt, Lynn
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	04/01/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth, and the spread of empathy over the centuries.