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The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 4, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Dan Edelstein editor Jennifer Pitts editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Publishing:28th Nov '24

£120.00

This title is due to be published on 28th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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A comprehensive and authoritative examination of rights-making in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This volume examines how writers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed and propagated new ideas about rights, and offers a global perspective on rights-making. A comprehensive resource for students and scholars of intellectual, social, and political history.The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Rights shows that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are better understood as a time of transformation, extending rights-making to meet the needs of a modernizing world. Rights became a means of liberation for religious minorities, the economic downtrodden, women, slaves, and others. But rights also became a means of control, especially in European colonies around the world, as well as in liberal economic regimes that protected property rights. Through twenty-six essays from experts across the world, this volume serves as an authoritative reference for the development of rights across this period of history.

ISBN: 9781316519165

Dimensions: 235mm x 161mm x 39mm

Weight: 1240g

696 pages