The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History

by Lynn Hunt

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"This new edition of The French Revolution and Human Rights, A Brief History with Documents offers a new section covering limits on rights to complement its rich exploration of the issue of rights and citizenship in Revolutionary France. Lynn Hunt, a leading scholar of the French Revolution, presents original translations and commentary on the debates and legislation that helped define modern notions of human rights. Her revised introduction provides an overview of the French development of show more the concept of human rights and the consequences that resulted from putting those rights into practice. A new section on national security and the limits on rights gives readers a sense of the issues that led French revolutionaries to suppress rights in the name of the nation and its security. Helpful editorial features include document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index"--Back cover. show less

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A selection of essays and primary source documents concerning the French Revolution and the theories and debates of human rights.

It is very interesting, to the political American reader, to see exactly where his French compatriots agreed and demurred from their own revolution.

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Lynn Hunt (Ph.D., Stanford University) is Distinguished Research Professor at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author or editor of nineteen books on human rights, the French Revolution, and historical methods more generally. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages. She was President of the American Historical show more Association in 2002 and has been awarded distinguished teaching awards by University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, and the American Historical Association. She is a co-author of the widely used Western Civilization textbook The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. show less

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Canonical title
The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History
Original publication date
1996
Important places
France
Important events
French Revolution (1789 | 1799)

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History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
DDC/MDS
323.094409033Society, government, & culturePolitical scienceCivil Rights & Liberties/ Human RightsCivil RightsBiography And HistoryEuropeFrance & Monaco
LCC
DC158.8 .F6895History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaFrance – Andorra – MonacoHistory of FranceModern, 1515-Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815
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