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A False Tree of Liberty - Human Rights in Radical Thought (Hardcover)
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A False Tree of Liberty - Human Rights in Radical Thought (Hardcover)
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This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human
rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar
questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did
human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections
between debates about the rights of man and developments within the
history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end
of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of
man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the
momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking
back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing
about dispossession, resistance and rights, the book reveals a
forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human
rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world
today.
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