Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth - and seventeenth - century writing about dispossession resistance and rights the book reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.
Title: A False Tree Of Liberty Human Rights In Radical Thought
Author(s): Marks Susan (Professor Of International Law Professor Of International Law London School Of Economics And Political Science)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199675456
Pages: 292 Pages
Publication Date: 2/5/2020
Category: Human Rights & Civil Liberties Law