Bringing Human Rights Home

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Bringing Human Rights Home
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 9780812220797
ISBN-13 : 081222079X
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Book Synopsis Bringing Human Rights Home by : Cynthia Soohoo

Book excerpt: Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in this volume put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.


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