Human Rights and Revolutions

by Greg Grandin, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Lynn Hunt, et al.

Book Overview

Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights. Covering events as far removed from one another as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in late twentieth-century China, the contributors explore the paradoxes of revolutions that have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742555135
• ISBN13: 9780742555136
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"