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The rights revolution : rights and community in modern America / Samuel Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Samuel, 1942- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights.
- Communitarianism--United States.
- Communitarianism.
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In reply to critics, this book details the history of the rise of rights in American society, from the birth of the civil rights movement to today.
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter One: THE PROBLEM OF RIGHTS; Chapter Two: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LIFE; Chapter Three: BELONGING TO AMERICA: RIGHTS AND MEMBERSHIP; Chapter Four: SPEAKING AND BELONGING: FREE SPEECH AND COMMUNITY; Chapter Five: THE CONFINED AND THE ACCUSED; Chapter Six: THE LIMITS OF COMMUNITARIANISM; Chapter Seven: CONCLUSION: NEW RULES FOR AMERICAN SOCIETY; NOTES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771715-2
- 1-280-44164-X
- 1-4237-3455-6
- 0-19-534471-5
- 1-60256-627-5
- OCLC:
- 559885444
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