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The slave trade and the origins of international human rights law /
"There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment and that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this narrative, the nineteenth century's absence is con...
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| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012.
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Mục lục:
- Chapter One : Introduction
- Chapter Two : Britain and the slave trade : the rise of abolitionism
- Chapter Three : The United States and the Slave Trade : an ambivalent foe
- Chapter Four : The Courts of Mixed Commission for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
- Chapter Five : Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
- Chapter Six : Hostis Humanis Generis : Enemies of Mankind
- Chapter Seven : From crisis to success : the Final Abolition of the Slave Trade
- Chapter Eight : A Bridge to the Future : Links to comtemporary international human rights law
- Chapter Nine : International Human Rights Law and International Courts : Rethinking their Origins and Future.