Two cultures of rights : the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany / edited by Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer.
2002
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Title
Two cultures of rights : the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany / edited by Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer.
Published
Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Call Number
JC571 .T88 2002
ISBN
0521792665
Description
ix, 284 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)44869072
Note
Papers from a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 1997 and sponsored by the German Historical Institute.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction / Manfred Berg Martin H. Geyer
1
Pt. 1
Race, Immigration, and Rights
1Asian Americans: Rights Denied and Attained / Roger Daniels
19
2Individual Right and Collective Interests: The NAACP and the American Voting Rights Discourse / Manfred Berg
33
3Securing Rights by Action, Securing Rights by Default: American Jews in Historical Perspective / Hasia R. Diner
59
4From Civil Rights to Civic Death: Dismantling Rights in Nazi Germany / Karl A. Schleunes
77
5The Rights of Aliens in Germany and the United States / Christian Joppke
95
Pt. 2
Civil and Social Rights
6"The Right to Work Is the Right to Live!" Fair Employment and the Quest for Social Citizenship / Eileen Boris
121
7Social Rights and Citizenship During World War II / Martin H. Geyer
143
8Just Desserts: Virtue, Agency, and Property in Mid-Twentieth-Century Germany / Michael L. Hughes
167
9The Political Culture of Rights: Postwar Germany and the United States in Comparative Perspective / Hugh Davis Graham
189
10The Emerging Right to Information / Margaret S. Dalton
205
Pt. 3
Gender, Sex, and Rights
11Feminist Movements in the United States and Germany: A Comparative Perspective, 1848-1933 / Ann Taylor Allen
231
12Minorities, Civil Rights, and Political Culture: Gay and Lesbian Rights in Germany and the United States / Michael Dreyer
249
Index
273