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- Is provocative and intended to arouse debate among scholars and practitioners
- Gives historical context to the development of universal human rights
- Combines information and a thesis in a way not found in other English language texts
- Contests the Anglo-Saxon paternity of universal human rights ?
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- French Revolution
- Genocide and Human Rights
- Human Rights and the Working Class
- Human Rights in the Nineteenth Century
- Individual and the Nation
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Nationalism and Human Rights
- Revolutionary Justice
- Slaves and Human Rights
- Struggle for Hegemony
- Struggle for Universal Human Rights
- Triumph of the Nation
- Uniting Force of Genocide
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Universal Human Rights
- Universal Humanity
- Women and Human Rights
- World Without Rights
Authors and Affiliations
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St. Kilda, Australia
Alastair Davidson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Immutable Laws of Mankind
Book Subtitle: The Struggle For Universal Human Rights
Authors: Alastair Davidson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4183-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4182-9Published: 04 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8089-6Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4183-6Published: 02 May 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 522
Topics: Political Science, History, general, Political Philosophy