Human rights, meaning and history / by Michael Palumbo

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Malabar, Florida : Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, [1982]Description: 207 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 323.409
Contents:
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
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Book Book Main Library Law Research Center LRC LRC 323.409 P184h 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 8099d

"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

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