A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

by Eric D. Weitz

Book Overview

A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others

Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights--a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691205140
• ISBN13: 9780691205144
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"