Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition Marcie Hershman Nancy Mitford modeled the characters

Nancy Mitford modeled the characters in her two best-known novels on her own famously unconventional family

With wit and irreverence

using fresh images and energetic rhythms to make them accessible to modern readers

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Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition Marcie Hershman Nancy Mitford modeled the charactersAuthor Contributor(s): Moyn, Samuel Publisher: Verso Date: 8 29 2017 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rightsWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of