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  • Inventing Human Rights: A History

    A History

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewHow were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Revolutionary Self

    Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions.Since the eighteenth century, one of the defining concerns of modern life has been the tension between the self and society: we believe in a person’s autonomy, but we also acknowledge that people are shaped by social and cultural forces. The Revolutionary Self delves into this paradox, turning to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Writing History in the Global Era

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written.Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Book That Changed Europe

    Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World

    by Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, Wijnand Mijnhardt ...
    Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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    The Revolutionary Self

    Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual 1770-1800

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Narrated by Kate Udall ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions.The eighteenth century was a time of cultural friction: individuals began to assert greater independence and there was a new emphasis on social equality. In this surprising history, Lynn Hunt examines women's expanding societal roles, such as using tea to facilitate conversation between the sexes in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Telling the Truth about History

    by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob ...
    "A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline."—Booklist ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Invention of Pornography

    Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. The first modern writers and engravers of pornography were part of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Making Meaning

    Making Sense

    by Lynne Hunt ...
    We narrate our life and, in doing so, we narrate ourselves into existence.In everyday life, we understand ourselves through a kind of ongoing story. Rachel Robertson (2012)This book emerged from a life lived in parts: part in the UK; part in Australia; part traveller; part writer; part academic teacher and researcher; part daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, step-mother, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • History

    Why It Matters

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    Series series Why It Matters
    We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past.So how can any certainty about history be ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Human Rights and Revolutions

    Edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Greg Grandin, Lynn Hunt, Marilyn B. Young ...
    Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Family Romance of the French Revolution

    by Lynn Hunt ...
    This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring, multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. Hunt uses the term `Family Romance', (coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing), in a broader sense, to describe the images of the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD