Introductory Perspectives
The paradoxical origins of human rights / Lynn Hunt
The Chinese Revolution and contemporary paradoxes / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Anglo-American Events and Traditions
Tradition, human rights, and the English Revolution / David Zaret
Natural rights in the American Revolution: the American amalgam / Michael Zuckert
Variations on European Themes, 1871-1917
Paris 1871/New Caledonia 1878: human rights and the managerial state / Alice Bullard
A European experience: human rights and citizenship in revolutionary Russia / Yanni Kotsonis
Colonial Contexts and the Problem of Imperialism
An enlightenment for outcasts: some Vietnamese stories / Alexander Woodside
What absence is made of: human rights in Africa / Florence Bernault
Acumen of the irreconciled: a few conjectures on dictatorship / Adam Michnik (translated by Jacek Dalecki)
Sendero Luminoso and human rights: a perverse logic that captured the country / Carlos Basombrío Iglesias
A Human Rights Revolution?
A new age of liberal imperialism? / David Rieff
Kosovo: the war of NATO expansion / Robin Blackburn
The strange career of radical Islam / Timothy McDaniel.
