Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights / Robert Lamb.
Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights / Robert Lamb.
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Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2015/3886
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English
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xi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Paine as Political Philosopher: Interpretation and Understanding -- Political Obligation, Human Rights and the Moral Universe -- Rights of Democratic Inclusion and the Viruses of Citizenship -- Private Property, the Natural Inheritance and Rights to Welfare -- Cosmopolitanism and the...
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Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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England
Date Published
2015.
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"Thomas Paine is a legendary Anglo-American political icon: a passionate, plain-speaking, relentlessly controversial, revolutionary campaigner, whose writings captured the zeitgeist of the two most significant political events of the eighteenth century, the American and French Revolutions. Though widely acknowledged by historians as one of the most...
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Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights / Robert Lamb.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-210) and index.
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G 2015/3886
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74VKRLdeaEZM
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ISBN
1107106524 (hardback)
9781107106529 (hardback)
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323.01
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991023149389702626
