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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| Format: | Conference Paper Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2002
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| Series: | Publications of the German Historical Institute
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| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781139052337 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052337
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| Author Notes: | edited by Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer |
Table of Contents:
- 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.