Human rights in world history
By: Peter N. Stearns
Series: Themes in world history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780415507950; 9780415507967; 9780203119952
Subjects: Human rights; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The contemporary dilemmas; title: Human rights in premodern world history; title: The new push for human rights; title: Human rights on a world stage: the 19th century and the interwar decades; title: Human rights and global expansion: surges of growth since 1945; title: Resistance and response: more globalization, or less; title: Conclusion: human rights in motion.