Authors: Paul Gordon Lauren
ISBN-13: 9780812218541, ISBN-10: 081221854X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: Second Edition
Paul Gordon Lauren is Regents Professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of a number of books, including Power and Prejudice. He has lectured widely and delivered invited addresses, at the Smithsonian Institution and the United Nations, on the subject of human rights.
"It is difficult to imagine a finer gift on the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights than this study of the Declaration's complex and far-reaching impact."—American Historical Review
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction: Visions and Visionaries | 1 | |
1 | My Brother's and Sister's Keeper: Vision and the Birth of Human Rights | 4 |
2 | To Protect Humanity and Defend Justice: Early International Efforts | 37 |
3 | Entering the Twentieth Century: World Visions, War, and Revolutions | 71 |
4 | Opportunities and Challenges: Visions and Rights Between the Wars | 103 |
5 | A "People's War": The Crusade of World War II | 135 |
6 | A "People's Peace": Peace and a Charter with Human Rights | 166 |
7 | Proclaiming a Vision: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 199 |
8 | Transforming Visions into Reality: The First Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration | 233 |
9 | The Continuing Evolution | 271 |
10 | Toward the Future | 282 |
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 305 | |
Notes | 311 | |
Selected Bibliography | 359 | |
Index | 373 | |
About the Author | 399 |