The last utopia : human rights in history / Samuel Moyn.

Author/creator Moyn, Samuel
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Description337 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Humanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- The burden of morality -- "Human rights" in Anglo-American news -- Human rights in the 1940s -- Human rights between 1968-1978.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010012998
ISBN9780674048720 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674048725 (alk. paper)