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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hunt, Lynn Avery.
      Inventing human rights / Lynn Hunt.
           p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

   1. Human rights—History. 2. Human rights in literature.
    3. Torture—History. I. Title.
JC585.H89 2007
323.09—dc22         2006027599

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