Human Rights and Revolutions

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Greg Grandin is professor of history at New York University. Lynn Hunt is Eugen Weber Professor of French History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Marilyn B. Young is professor of history at New York University.

This book is a necessary addition to a research collection, because it provides a comprehensive framework and well chosen set of cases to illustrate the state of the art of the major debates in the human rights field.

• Introduction: Human Rights and RevolutionsPart I: Two Opening PerspectivesChapter 1: The Paradoxical Origins of Human Rights Chapter 2: The Chinese Revolution and Contemporary ParadoxesPart II: The English, American, and Russian RevolutionsChapter 3: Tradition, Human Rights, and the English RevolutionChapter 4: Natural Rights in the American Revolution: The American AmalgamChapter 5: A European Experience: Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary RussiaPart III: Asian and African Case StudiesChapter 6: An Enlightenment of Outcasts: Some Vietnamese Stories Chapter 7: India, Human Rights, and Asian Values Chapter 8: What Absence Is Made Of: Human Rights in Africa Part IV: A Human Rights Revolution?Chapter 9: (Homo)sexuality, Human Rights, and Revolution in Latin America Chapter 10: Ethics and the Rearmament of Imperialism: The French CaseChapter 11: The Strange Career of Radical IslamPart V: A Concluding PerspectiveChapter 12: Human Rights and Empire's Embrace: A Latin American Counterpoint