Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany

ISBN-13: 9780521792660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 296 str.

Berg, Manfred

Opis

This book 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. The essays address issues such as the struggle for the rights of women and minorities (including African Americans, Jews, and Asians), National Socialism and the dismantling of civil rights, and the emergence of the concept of social rights. What becomes clear are the unique features that distinguish German from American history and that these differences have been created by both social movements and dissimilar cultures of rights.

Recenzje

'… a fine collection of chapters that remain true to the topic.' Nations and Nationalism

Spis treści

List of contributors; Introduction Manfred Berg and Martin H. Geyer; Part I. Race, Immigration and Rights: 1. Asian Americans: rights denied and attained Roger Daniels; 2. Individual right and collective interests: the NAACP and the American voting rights discourse Manfred Berg; 3. Securing rights by action, securing rights by default: American Jews in historical perspective Hasia R. Diner; 4. From civil rights to civic death dismantling rights in Nazi Germany Karl A. Schleunes; 5. The rights of aliens in Germany and the United States Christian Joppke; Part II. Civil and Social Rights: 6. 'The right to work is the right to live!': fair employment and the quest for social citizenship Eileen Boris; 7. Social rights and citizenship during World War II Martin H. Geyer; 8. Just desserts: virtue, agency and property in mid-twentieth-century Germany Michael L. Hughes; 9. The political culture of rights: postwar Germany and the United States in comparative perspective Hugh Davis Graham; 10. The emerging right to information Margaret S. Dalton; Part III. Gender, Sex and Rights: 11. Feminist movements in the United States and Germany: a comparative perspective, 1848–1933 Ann Taylor Allen; 12. Minorities, civil rights and political culture: gay and lesbian rights in Germany and the United States Michael Dreyer; Index.