The Last Utopia

Human Rights in History

Samuel Moyn

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$22.50 • £18.95 • €20.50

ISBN 9780674064348

Publication Date: 03/05/2012

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352 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Belknap Press

World

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Prologue
1. Humanity before Human Rights
2. Death from Birth
3. Why Anticolonialism Wasn’t a Human Rights Movement
4. The Purity of This Struggle
5. International Law and Human Rights
Epilogue: The Burden of Morality
Appendixes
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

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