Description: Further DetailsTitle: Bringing Human Rights HomeCondition: NewSubtitle: A History of Human Rights in the United StatesISBN-10: 081222079XEAN: 9780812220797ISBN: 9780812220797Edition: Abridged EditionPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/01/2009Description: Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.The contributing writers examine the global influences on early American attitudes toward human rights and, reviewing the twentieth century, note the high-water mark of human rights acceptance during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. They examine the domestic tensions between civil and political rights on the one hand, and economic, social, and cultural rights on the other. Taking the long view, many of the contributors emphasize the role played by social movements and grassroots activists in pressing a human rights agenda from the bottom up.The essays examine the centrality of human rights in the early and mid-twentieth-century civil rights movement, the breadth of subnational human rights activism in the face of federal inaction on a range of human rights issues, and the ways both post-9/11 developments and government responses to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina spurred grassroots activism in the United States. Several essays explore in depth the emergence of new advocacy strategies, both in the context of litigating for civil and political rights and through the lens of particular economic rights sectors, such as labor. Though the setbacks for human rights have been many, Bringing Human Rights Home demonstrates the strength and resilience of the U.S. human rights movement and offers hope for its future.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmContributor: Catherine Albisa (Edited by), Martha F. Davis (Edited by), Cynthia Soohoo (Edited by)Genre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsAuthor: Catherine AlbisaRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Bringing Human Rights Home
Title: Bringing Human Rights Home
Subtitle: A History of Human Rights in the United States
ISBN-10: 081222079X
EAN: 9780812220797
ISBN: 9780812220797
Edition: Abridged Edition
Release Date: 12/01/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Cynthia Soohoo (Edited by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 424 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Bringing Human Rights Home : a History of Human Rights in the United States
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 1.2 in
Subject: Civil Rights, Human Rights, International Relations / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.3 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Catherine Albisa
Subject Area: Political Science
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
