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Two cultures of rights : the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany /

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berg, Manfred, 1959-, Geyer, Martin H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, UK ; New York : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Asian Americans: rights denied and attained / Roger Daniels
  • Individual right and collective interests: the NAACP and the American voting rights discourse / Manfred Berg
  • Securing rights by action, securing rights by default: American Jews in historical perspective / Hasia R. Diner
  • From civil rights to civic death: dismantling rights in Nazi Germany / Karl A. Schleunes
  • The rights of aliens in Germany and the United States / Christian Joppke
  • "The right to work is the right to live!" Fair employment and the quest for social citizenship / Eileen Boris
  • Social rights and citizenship during World War II / Martin H. Geyer
  • Just desserts: virtue, agency, and property in mid-twentieth-century Germany / Michael L. Hughes
  • The political culture of rights: postwar Germany and the United States in comparative perspective / Hugh Davis Graham
  • The emerging right to information / Margaret S. Dalton
  • Feminist movements in the United States and Germany: a comparative perspective, 1848-1933 / Ann Taylor Allen
  • Minorities, civil rights, and political culture: gay and lesbian rights in Germany and the United States / Michael Dreyer.