Human rights, meaning and history
Palumbo, Michael
Human rights, meaning and history / by Michael Palumbo - 207 pages
"An Anvil original under the general editorship of Louis L. Snyder."--Title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-204) and index.
Part 1. Human rights : meaning and history The meaning of human rights Human rights in antiquity The development of civil liberties in Great Britain The American and French revolutions The fight against slavery The age of social reform Totalirianism Genocide Human rights in the contemporary world Protest movements in the United States Part 2. Readings The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen Bentham : natural rights a fallacy Universsal declaration of human rights Cicero : brotherhood of man The sermon on the mount The magna charta Locke : right of revolution The English bill of rights Milton : censorship Roger Williams : freedom of religion The Virginia declaration of rights The declaration of independence The American bill of rights Burke : rights derived from tradition Paine : rights of man Horrors of the slave trade Rankin : slaves right to freedom Douglass : life of a slave The civil war amendments to the constitution The people's charter Wollstonecraft : liberation of women Mill : subjection of women Preamble of the constitution of the Knights of labor Mussilini : denial of individual rights Wallis : the fuehrerprinzip in Nazi Germany The Genocide convention Khrushchev : crimes of Stalin Hitler : enslavement of inferior races Carter : American support of human rights The Helsinki agreement Demands of polish workers international covenant on economic social and cultural rights International covenant on civil and political rights Kennedy : freedom from discrimination Rights of the American Indian A program for women's rights
Civil rights--History
323.409
Human rights, meaning and history / by Michael Palumbo - 207 pages
"An Anvil original under the general editorship of Louis L. Snyder."--Title page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-204) and index.
Part 1. Human rights : meaning and history The meaning of human rights Human rights in antiquity The development of civil liberties in Great Britain The American and French revolutions The fight against slavery The age of social reform Totalirianism Genocide Human rights in the contemporary world Protest movements in the United States Part 2. Readings The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen Bentham : natural rights a fallacy Universsal declaration of human rights Cicero : brotherhood of man The sermon on the mount The magna charta Locke : right of revolution The English bill of rights Milton : censorship Roger Williams : freedom of religion The Virginia declaration of rights The declaration of independence The American bill of rights Burke : rights derived from tradition Paine : rights of man Horrors of the slave trade Rankin : slaves right to freedom Douglass : life of a slave The civil war amendments to the constitution The people's charter Wollstonecraft : liberation of women Mill : subjection of women Preamble of the constitution of the Knights of labor Mussilini : denial of individual rights Wallis : the fuehrerprinzip in Nazi Germany The Genocide convention Khrushchev : crimes of Stalin Hitler : enslavement of inferior races Carter : American support of human rights The Helsinki agreement Demands of polish workers international covenant on economic social and cultural rights International covenant on civil and political rights Kennedy : freedom from discrimination Rights of the American Indian A program for women's rights
Civil rights--History
323.409