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FURTHER READINGS ON HUMAN RIGHTS


Beccaria, Cesare. On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings, edited by Richard Bellamy. New York, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995 (excerpt in Laqueur, The Human Rights Reader).

Brownlie, Ian, editor. Basic Documents on Human Rights, third edition. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Buergenthal, Thomas. International Human Rights in a Nutshell. Saint Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing, 1995.

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. New York, New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1955.

Claude, Richard P. and Burns H. Weston, editors. Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Actions, second edition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Donnelly, Jack. International Human Rights. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993.

Donnelly, Jack and Rhoda E. Howard, editors. International Handbook of Human Rights. New York, New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Edward Lawson, compiler. New York, New York: Taylor and Francis, 1991.

Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1995-1996. New York, New York: Freedom House, 1996.

Henkin, Louis, editor. The International Bill of Rights: The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996 (excerpt in Ravitch, Democracy Reader).

Kant, Immanuel. "Theory and Practice, Part Two," in Hans Reiss, editor, Kant's Political Writings. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1970 (excerpt in Laqueur, The Human Rights Reader).

Langley, Winston E., editor. Human Rights: Sixty Major Global Instruments Introduced, Reprinted and Indexed. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1992.

Laqueur, Walter and Barry Rubin, editors. The Human Rights Reader. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1979.

Locke, John. The Second Treatise of Civil Government. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1986 (excerpt in Ravitch, Democracy Reader, and in Laqueur, The Human Rights Reader).

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty and Other Essays. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 (excerpt in Ravitch, Democracy Reader, and in Laqueur, The Human Rights Reader).

Minear, Larry and Thomas G. Weiss. Mercy Under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995.

Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. New York, New York: Viking Penguin, 1995.

Plattner, Marc F. "Human Rights," in Seymour Martin Lipset, editor, The Encyclopedia of Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1995.

Ravitch, Diane and Abigail Thernstrom, editors. Democracy Reader: Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays, Poems, Declarations and Documents on Freedom and Human Rights Worldwide. New York, New York: Harper Collins, 1992.

Robertson, A.H. Human Rights in the World: An Introduction to the Study of International Human Rights, third edition. New York, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Social Contract and the Discourses. New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 (excerpt in Laqueur, The Human Rights Reader).

Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. New York, New York: Dover Publications, 1993 (excerpt in Ravitch, Democracy Reader).

De Tocqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. New York, New York: NAL/Dutton, 1956 (excerpt in Ravitch, Democracy Reader).

United States, Department of State. Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of State, issued annually.

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