René Cassin and human rights from the Great War to the Universal Declaration

"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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Prost, Antoine, 1933- (-)
Otros Autores: Winter, J. M.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Human rights in history.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39801767*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to the English edition
  • Part I. In the shadow of the Great War. 1. Family and education, 1887-1914 ; 2. The Great War and its aftermath ; 3. Cassin in Geneva ; 4. From nightmare to reality: 1936-1940
  • Part II. The jurist of free France. 5. Free France: 1940-41 ; 6. World war: 1941-43 ; 7. Republican legality and the return to peace: 1943-44 ; 8. Freeze frame: René Cassin in 1944
  • Part III. The struggle for human rights. 9. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: origins and echoes ; 10. Vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat ; 11. A Jewish life
  • Conclusion
  • Essay on sources.