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Introduction - Human Rights and Revolutions
I - TWO OPENING PERSPECTIVES
1 - The Paradoxical Origins of Human Rights
RIGHTS AND REVOLUTIONS
THE ENLIGHTENMENT ORIGINS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
NEW BODIES, NEW SELVES
TORTURE AND CRUEL PUNISHMENT
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND RIGHTS
NOTES
2 - The Chinese Revolution and Contemporary Paradoxes
1998: A SNAPSHOT
ASSESSING THE CCP
EMPHASIZING THE HUMAN IN HUMAN RIGHTS
BASIC ISSUES REVISITED
CONCLUSION
NOTES
II - THE ENGLISH, AMERICAN, AND RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS
3 - Tradition, Human Rights, and the English Revolution
REVOLUTION VERSUS HUMAN RIGHTS
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA OF HUMAN RIGHTS
TAXES, PRIVILEGES, AND RIGHTS
THE RIGHT TO PETITION
NOTES
4 - Natural Rights in the American Revolution: The American Amalgam
THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND 1776
TWO THEORIES OF RIGHTS
NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION REVISITED
NOTES
5 - A European Experience: Human Rights and Citizenship in Revolutionary Russia
AMBIGUITIES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
A RUSSIAN ENLIGHTENMENT
COMPARATIVE IMPLICATIONS
NOTES
III - ASIAN AND AFRICAN CASE STUDIES
6 - An Enlightenment for Outcasts: Some Vietnamese Stories
NOTES
7 - India, Human Rights, and “Asian Values”
CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES AND STATE PRACTICES
AN AMBIVALENT STATE
CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
8 - What Absence Is Made Of: Human Rights in Africa
FALLEN IDEALS: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE COLONIAL PROJECT
INACCESSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
THE MYTH OF 1789 AS A CONTENDING SITE
THE HESITANT RHETORICS OF INDEPENDENCE
THE STATE’S ANNEXATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE POSTCOLONY (1950s–1980s)
THE LIBERATION OF CIVIL SOCIETY?
CONCLUSION
NOTES
IV - A HUMAN RIGHTS REVOLUTION?
9 - (Homo)sexuality, Human Rights, and Revolution in Latin America
INFLUENCES AND REVOLUTIONARY MOMENTS
HUMAN RIGHTS, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND CITIZENSHIP
HISTORY, REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS, AND HOMOSEXUALITY
DEMANDING LEGAL AND SOCIAL RIGHTS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
10 - Ethics and the Rearmament of Imperialism: The French Case
NOTES
11 - The Strange Career of Radical Islam
ISLAM AND HUMAN RIGHTS
REVOLUTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
ISLAM AND REVOLUTION: THE MODERN TRANSFORMATION
CONCLUSION
NOTES
V - A CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVE
12 - Human Rights and Empire’s Embrace: A Latin American Counterpoint
THE IDEA OF RIGHTS IN LATIN AMERICA
SOCIALIZING DEMOCRACY
RADICALIZING SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
LIBERALIZING RADICALISM
HUMAN RIGHTS AND EMPIRE
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