A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
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A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
By (Author) Eric D. Weitz
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
1st December 2021
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Human rights, civil rights
Geopolitics
323.09
Physical Properties
Paperback
576
Width 133mm, Height 203mm
Description
A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights-a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more
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"Finalist for the PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers"
Author Bio
Eric D. Weitz (19532021) was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He was also the author of Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice; A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation; and Creating German Communism, 18901990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State (all Princeton).
