9780521030564: Two Cultures of Rights

Synopsis

The history of civil, political and social rights in the USA and Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This collection addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the United States and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Using a cross-national comparative approach, this book presents national case studies that explore the similarities and differences of conceptualizing rights on both sides of the Atlantic. This book analyses the struggle for these rights by individuals and groups and how this struggle became an essential feature not only in political discourse but also in social and political practice and culture in both Germany and the United States. More specifically, the book examines the different ways rights have been denied due to race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Considerable attention is given to the impact of Nazism and the struggle for social rights during and after World War II.

Revue de presse

'... a fine collection of chapters that remain true to the topic.' Nations and Nationalism

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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521792665 ISBN 13 :  9780521792660
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002
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