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ISBN# 978-0-945159--36-0
In today's volatile political landscape, the study of human rights is more critical than ever. This anthology contains 33 classic and contemporary selections from around the world illustrating the evolution of human rights. Legal documents, essays, memoirs, letters, short fiction, and poetry trace the history of this revolutionary concept.
To help students explore this subject fully, the anthology includes:
Explanatory headnotes
Provacative discussion questions
Research topics for every selection
The table of contents of Citizens of the World: Readings in Human Rights:
How to Keep a Slave
Cato the Elder
Hortensia's Protest
Appian of Alexandria
Letter XLVII
Seneca the Younger
Magna Carta
English Bill of Rights*
Second Treatise of Government*
John Locke
The Social Contract*
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Constitution of the United States of American (Preamble and Bill of Rights)
State of the Union Address*
Andrew Jackson
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
The United States of American V. Susan B. Anthony*
Slavery of the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan
Channing Arnold and Frederick Frost
Independence V. Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi's Followers Protest the Salt Tax
Webb Miller
The Stalin Epigram
Osip Mandelstam
The Arrest of Osip Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam
I Will Bear Witness*
Victor Klemperer
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Harlem [2]
Langston Hughes
Survival in Auschwitz*
Primo Levi
Defending Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Luis Aguilar
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rivonia Trial: Second Coutry Statement*
Nelson Mandela
Letter to Deng Xiaoping
Wie Jingsheng
The Censors
Luisa Valenzuela
We Say No
Eduardo Galeano
A Few Remarks
Vaclav Havel, Stanislav Devdy, Jiri Krizan, and Sasa Vondra
Comrades
Nadine Gordimer
The War and the Law
Max Frankel
Red Scarf Girl*
Ji-li Jiang
My Forbidden Face*
Latifa
*Indicates a selection take from a longer work.
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