The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents From Ancient Times to the Present

I purchased this book for a class I am taking. I was very surprised and happy with the contents. It offers a reasonably balanced perspective (besides the slight Marxist leaning) and I have enjoyed reading it. The book compares early philosophy and religious teaching, as well as Eastern thought in a very unique way. Not exactly pleasure reading, but if you pair it with an excellent professor you have a very fine education.

Bought for class never even read it

Second copy purchased. An excellent compilation of the arc of human rights through the ages.

book was perfectly fine and came with baseball cards in it. as well as a mystery!

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There is plenty of information contained under the product description heading for this work which I will not repeat here. Suffice to say that I found this a most interesting and illuminating work, containing a large number of texts that have influenced where we currently stand with regard to Human Rights. Covering works from earliest times (The Code of Hammurabi, a well-preserved Babylonian law code, dating to ca. 1700 BC (short chronology)) to the present day, these works provide a fascinating insight into the evolving nature of the understanding and place of Human Rights.This work is a reader and as such someone more interested in the History of Human Rights might be better off with  The History of Human Rights From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era  by the same author. Ideally I would recommend both works as they compliment each other very well. The History of Human Rights From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era

Micheline Ishay reúne en este libro una asombrosa colección de textos a través de la cual se puede observar la evolución y transformación de los derchos humanos a lo largo de la historia