A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

by Eric D. Weitz

Book Overview

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to others

Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights--a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069114544X
• ISBN13: 9780691145440
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"