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This course examines the historical development of humanitarianism and human rights between the late-eighteenth and late twentieth-centuries. It offers an introductory survey of the ideas and tactics in international protests over slavery, industrial working conditions, prisoners of war, and refugees. It considers how rights have been understood, contested, and revised in the legal frameworks of state sovereignty and international government. Additional thematic subjects include religion, race, gender, and the pervasive tension between universal principle and cultural difference.