Jay Winter: René Cassin and Human Rights

Cover: 9781107655706 | René Cassin and Human Rights | Jay Winter (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2013

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Beschreibung

Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.

Über den Autor

Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History emeritus at Yale University and Distinguished Senior Teaching Scholar at Duke Kunshan University

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the English edition; Part I. In the Shadow of the Great War: 1. Family and education, 1887-1914; 2. The Great War and its aftermath; 3. Cassin in Geneva; 4. From nightmare to reality: 1936-1940; Part II. The Jurist of Free France: 5. Free France: 1940-41; 6. World war: 1941-43; 7. Restoring the Republican legal order: the 'Comité Juridique'; 8. Freeze frame: René Cassin in 1944; Part III. The Struggle for Human Rights: 9. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: origins and echoes; 10. The vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat, 1944-1960; 11. A Jewish life; Conclusion; An essay on sources.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107655706
ISBN-10:	1107655706
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Winter, Jay Prost, Antoine
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Jay Winter (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.05.2013
Gewicht:	0,65 kg