Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel Moyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Maryland Historical Magazine
Author: William Hand Browne
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Includes the proceedings of the Society.
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Includes the proceedings of the Society.
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
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Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Biennial Report of the State Engineer
Author: Nevada. State Engineer
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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American Florist
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Category : Floriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio
Author: William B. Neff
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Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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History of the Huston Families and Their Descendants, 1450-1912
Author: E. Rankin Huston
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Who's who in Commerce and Industry
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1580
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