Two cultures of rights : the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany / edited by Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Manfred, 1959- editor.

Geyer, Martin H., editor.

Series:

Publications of the German Historical Institute.

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--United States--Congresses.

Human rights.

Human rights--Germany--Congresses.

Civil rights--United States--Congresses.

Civil rights.

Civil rights--Germany--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-88286-4

1-139-05233-0

1-280-16036-5

0-511-11907-0

1-139-14687-4

0-511-06732-1

0-511-06099-8

0-511-33088-X

0-511-06945-6

OCLC:

475923948