Lynn Hunt: Inventing Human Rights | Beyond Intractability

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Title	Lynn Hunt: Inventing Human Rights
URL	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZVD1G4...
Description	Lynn Hunt, UCLA Professor of Modern European History, discusses the genesis of human rights, a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared all men are created equal and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man during their revolution, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. But why then? How did such a revelation come to pass?
Date Published	March 2008
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