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The American language of rights /

This examination of three crucial periods in American history (the late eighteenth century, the civil war and the 1950s and 1960s) demonstrates how the conceptions of rights prevailing at each of these times grew from opposition to specific political adversities. This study will be a major contribut...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Primus, Richard A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 54.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Rights theory and rights practice; Chapter 2 History and the development of rights; Chapter 3 Rights of the Founding; Chapter 4 Rights and Reconstruction: syntheses and shell games; Chapter 5 Rights after World War II; Conclusion: rights and reasons; Bibliography; Index; Ideas in Context.