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René Cassin and human rights : from the Great War to the Universal Declaration

Title: René Cassin and human rights : from the Great War to the Universal Declaration / Jay Winter and Antoine Prost.
Author: Prost, Antoine, 1933-
Publication: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Additional Authors

Winter, J. M.

Description

xxiii, 376, [24] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first 70 years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures, and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project"--

Series Statement

Human rights in history

Uniform Title

René Cassin et les droits de l'homme. English
Human rights in history.

Alternative Title

René Cassin et les droits de l'homme.

Subjects

Note

Originally published in French by Fayard, 2011.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Family and education, 1887-1914 -- The Great War and its aftermath -- Cassin in Geneva -- From nightmare to reality, 1936-1940 -- Free France, 1940-1941 -- World War, 1941-1943 -- Restoring the republican legal order : the "comitâe juridique" -- Freeze frame : Renâe Cassin in 1944 -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : origins and echoes -- The vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat, 1944-1960 -- A Jewish life.

Call Number

JFE 15-7969

ISBN

9781107032569 (hardback)
1107032563 (hardback)
9781107655706 (paperback)
1107655706 (paperback)

LCCN

2012035056
9781107655706

OCLC

809420880

Author

Prost, Antoine, 1933- author.

Title

René Cassin and human rights : from the Great War to the Universal Declaration / Jay Winter and Antoine Prost.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Human rights in history

Human rights in history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Added Author

Winter, J. M., author.

Other Standard Identifier

9781107655706

Research Call Number

JFE 15-7969

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