A False Tree of Liberty
Human Rights in Radical Thought
This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided withthe final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing abou…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-166355-0
- EAN: 9780191663550
- Produktnummer: 33168512
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'392 KB
Über den Autor
Susan Marks is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge and King's College London. Her research is concerned with international law and human rights. She is the author of The Riddle of All Constitutions and International Human Rights Lexicon (co-written with Andrew Clapham), and edited International Law on the Left (CUP).
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