Cornell University (2 knihy )
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James Mace Ward Priest, Politician, Collaborator EN
In Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887 – 1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ultimately hanged for treason and (in effect) crimes against humanity by a postwar reunified Czechoslovakia. Drawing on…
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Jack Donnelly Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice EN
In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights — and the idea of human rights itself—is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition in 1989,…