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Lynn Hunt

Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era and former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles.

Lynn Hunt

Books by Lynn Hunt

Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt
Paperback, 2008
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
Writing History in the Global Era
Lynn Hunt
Hardback, 2014
With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
Writing History in the Global Era
Lynn Hunt
Paperback, 2015
With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt
E Book, 2008
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
Writing History in the Global Era
Lynn Hunt
E Book, 2014
With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written.
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Lynn Hunt
Hardback, 2025
An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions
The Revolutionary Self: Social Change and the Emergence of the Modern Individual, 1770-1800
Lynn Hunt
E Book
An illuminating exploration of the tensions between self and society in the age of revolutions.
Telling the Truth about History
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob
Paperback, 1995
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a...
Telling the Truth about History
Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob
E Book, 2011
"A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a...