René Cassin and human rights : from the Great War to the Universal Declaration / / Jay Winter and Antoine Prost [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Prost Antoine <1933->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiii, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 341.4/8
• Soggetto topico: Lawyers - France; Human rights
• Classificazione: HIS010000
• Persona (resp. second.): WinterJ. M.
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Family and education, 1887-1914 -- The Great War and its aftermath -- Cassin in Geneva -- From nightmare to reality, 1936-1940 -- Free France, 1940-1941 -- World War, 1941-1943 -- Restoring the republican legal order : the "comitâe juridique" -- Freeze frame : Renâe Cassin in 1944 -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights : origins and echoes -- The vice-president of the Conseil d'Etat, 1944-1960 -- A Jewish life.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 was a man of his generation, committed to moving from war to peace through international law, and whose work won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. His life crossed all the major events of the first seventy years of the twentieth century, and illustrates the hopes, aspirations, failures and achievements of an entire generation. It shows how today's human rights regimes emerged from the First World War as a pacifist response to that catastrophe and how, after 1945, human rights became a way to go beyond the dangers of absolute state sovereignty, helping to create today's European project.
• Altri titoli varianti: René Cassin & Human Rights
• Titolo autorizzato: René Cassin and human rights
• ISBN: 1-107-35796-9; 1-107-23807-2; 1-107-34459-X; 1-107-25500-7; 1-107-34834-X; 1-107-34584-7; 1-107-34209-0; 1-139-50670-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809074803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Human rights in history.