Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States

Book Overview

Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.

The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222079X
• ISBN13: 9780812220797
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"