Insurgent universality : an alternative legacy of modernity / Massimiliano Tomba.
"Scholars commonly take the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for modern concepts of human rights. According to the declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at all times and all places. But as rece...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Physical Description: | xii, 286 pages ; 22 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : decolonizing modern history
- 1793 : the neglected legacy of insurgent universality
- 1871 : the institutions of insurgent universality
- 1918 : the constitutional anomaly of insurgent universality
- 1994 : Zapatistas and the dispossessed of history.