The Conservative Human Rights Revolution

The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
Author: Marco Duranti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199811385

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This book reconsiders the origins of the European human rights system, arguing that its conservative inventors, foremost among them Winston Churchill, conceived of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as a means of realizing a controversial political agenda and advancing a Christian vision of European identity.