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100 1 _aDavidson, Alastair.
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Immutable Laws of Mankind
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Struggle For Universal Human Rights /
_cby Alastair Davidson.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2012.
300 _aXXXIII, 520p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aPrologue --  Chapter 1  A World without Rights --  Chapter 2 Eyes Turned Heavenwards -- Chapter 3 When the World was New -- Chapter 4 The Open Republic, or Kafka’s Doorman -- Chapter 5 Jack is Master in his own House: The Triumph of the Nation -- Chapter 6 Rousseau: A Mixed Legacy -- Chapter 7 Half Included: Human Rights and the Working Class -- Chapter 8 The Excluded: Women --  Chapter 9 The Excluded: Slaves -- Chapter 10 It Could Happen to Us. The Uniting Force of Genocide -- Chapter 11 True Believers: Human Rights in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 12 Fathering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- Epilogue -- Bibliography --  Index.
520 _aThe key question for the history of universal human rights is why it took so long for them to become established as law. The main theme of this book is that the attainment of universal human rights required heroic struggle, first by individuals and then by ever-increasing numbers of people who supported those views against the major historical trends. Universal human rights are won from a hostile majority by outsiders. The chapters in the book describe the milestones in that struggle. The history presented in this book shows that, in most places at most times, even today, for concrete material reasons a great many people oppose the notion that all individuals have equal rights. The dominant history since the 1600s has been that of a mass struggle for the national-democratic state. This book argues that this struggle for national rights has been practically and logically contradictory with the struggle for universal rights. It would only be otherwise if there were free migration and access to citizenship on demand by anybody. This has never been the case. Rather than drawing only on European sources and being limited to major literary figures, this book is written from the Gramscian perspective that ideas mean little until they are taken up as mass ideologies. It draws on sources from Asia and America and on knowledge about mass attitudes, globally and throughout history.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aPolitical science
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aPolitical Science, general.
650 2 4 _aHistory.
650 2 4 _aPolitical Philosophy.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4183-6
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