Lynn Hunt (Author of Inventing Human Rights)

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Lynn Hunt

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November 16, 1945

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Lynn Avery Hunt is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her area of expertise is the French Revolution, but she is also well known for her work in European cultural history on such topics as gender. Her 2007 work, Inventing Human Rights, has been heralded as the most comprehensive analysis of the history of human rights. She served as president of the American Historical Association in 2002.

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	Inventing Human Rights: A History 3.73 avg rating — 1,131 ratings — published 2007 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History: Why It Matters 3.63 avg rating — 340 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution: With a New Preface, 20th Anniversary Edition (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, No. 1) 3.69 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing History in the Global Era 3.44 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Family Romance of the French Revolution 3.85 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1992 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The French Revolution and Human Rights: A Brief Documentary History (Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.52 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Vol. 1: To 1740 by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein 3.56 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) (Volume 6) 3.57 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity 3.92 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of the West : Peoples and Cultures- A Concise History(Volume II) by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“GREAT THINGS sometimes come from rewriting under pressure.”
― Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History

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“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.”
― Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History

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“It may not be the first line of defense of democratic societies, but it is actually quite near the front because an understanding of history heightens our ability to pierce through the fogs of willful misinformation that constitute lying.”
― Lynn Hunt, History: Why It Matters

tags: global-history, history, history-of-mankind, misinformation

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