TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Lynn Avery
TI  - Inventing human rights: a history 
SN  - 9780393331998 (pbk.)
AV  - JC585 .H89 2008
U1  - 323.09 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York, London
PB  - W. W. Norton
KW  -  
KW  - Human rights
KW  - History
KW  - Human rights in literature
KW  - Torture
N1  - Originally published: 2007; Includes bibliographical references and index; "Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run
N2  - In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy
ER  -