The Human Rights Revolution by William I. Hitchcock (.ePUB)
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The Human Rights Revolution: An International History (Reinterpreting History: How Historical Assessments Change over Time) edited by William I. Hitchcock, Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde
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Overview: Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human rights revolution grew rapidly to subsume claims from minorities, women, the politically oppressed, and marginal communities across the globe. The human rights revolution began with a disarmingly simple idea: that every individual, whatever his or her nationality, political beliefs, or ethnic and religious heritage, possesses an inviolable right to be treated with dignity. From this basic claim grew many more, and ever since, the cascading effect of these initial rights claims has dramatically shaped world history down to our own times.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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