Abstract
Section 1: introductory perspectives: the paradoxical origins of human rights, Lynn Hunt the Chinese Revolution and contemporary paradoxes, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. Section 2: Anglo-American events and traditions, human rights, and the English Revolution, David Zaret natural rights in the American Revolution, Michael Zuckert. Section 3: variations on European themes, Alice Bullard a European experience, Yanni Kotsonis. Section 4: colonial contexts and the problem of imperialism - an enlightenment for outcasts, Alexander Woodside what is absence made of, Florence Nernault. Section 5: views from the field - acumen of the irreconciled, Adam Michnik Sendero Luminoso and human rights, Carlos Iglesias. Section 6: a human rights revolution? a new age of liberal imperialism? David Rieff Kosovo - the war of Nato expansion, Robin Blackburn the strange career of radical Islam, Timothy McDaniel.
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