| Sumario: | The article focuses on the historical studies of human rights in Canada. Is there such a thing as human rights history? Certainly a number of recent works could be filed within that category. Historian Michael Ignatieff has sketched a brief history of the rights revolution in Canada, examining how, in the postwar era, rights talk has transformed. Ignatieff is vague about the early details of this revolution, but a number of other recent works fill in some of the gaps. For example, James Walker and Constance Backhouse have provided case studies of the way in which political activists and the Canadian legal system affected the pre-Charter human rights of racial and religious minorities.
|
|---|