René Cassin and Human Rights: From the Great War to the Universal Declaration

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Cambridge University Press, 2 mei 2013 - 397 pagina's
Through the life of one extraordinary man, this biography reveals what the term human rights meant to the men and women who endured two world wars, and how this major political and intellectual movement ultimately inspired and enshrined the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. René Cassin was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.

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Family and education 18871914
3
The Great War and its aftermath
19
Cassin in Geneva
51
From nightmare to reality 19361940
80
Free France 19401941
109
World War 19411943
134
the Comité
168
René Cassin in 1944
200
origins
221
Conclusion
341
An essay on sources
354
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Jay Winter is Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University. He has published widely on the history of the First World War, and is one of the founders of the Historial de la grande guerre, the international museum of the Great War in Péronne, France. He is author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

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