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UNINA9910463542903321 |
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Smith-Cannoy Heather M |
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Insincere commitments [[electronic resource] ] : human rights treaties, abusive states, and citizen activism / / Heather M. Smith-Cannoy |
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Washington D.C., : Georgetown University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Human rights - International cooperation |
Human rights - Government policy |
Human rights monitoring |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- A new approach to commitment and compliance -- Patterns of commitment -- Causes of commitment -- Individual petitions in Eastern Europe: racial discrimination in Slovakia -- Hungary and the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- The Human Rights Committee in Central Asia: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- The causes and consequences of commitment reconsidered. |
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Paradoxically, many governments that persistently violate human rights have also ratified international human rights treaties that empower their citizens to file grievances against them at the United Nations. Therefore, citizens in rights-repressing regimes find themselves with the potentially invaluable opportunity to challenge their government's abuses. Why would rights-violating governments ratify these treaties and thus afford their citizens this right? Can the mechanisms provided in these treaties actually help promote positive changes in human rights?Insincere Commitments uses both quant |
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UNINA9910953255603321 |
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Vitiello Domenic |
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Engineering Philadelphia : the Sellers family and the industrial metropolis / / Domenic Vitiello |
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Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2013 |
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9780801469732 |
0801469732 |
9780801469749 |
0801469740 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Deindustrialization - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 20th century |
Industrialization - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 19th century |
Manufactures - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 19th century |
Urbanization - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 19th century |
Philadelphia (Pa.) Economic conditions 19th century |
Philadelphia (Pa.) History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Manufacturing metropolitan development -- Migration strategies and industrial frontiers -- Rationalizing the factory and city -- Progressive economic development -- Empires of steel -- Building the scientific city -- Roots of decline. |
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The Sellers brothers, Samuel and George, came to North America in 1682 as part of the Quaker migration to William Penn's new province on the shores of the Delaware River. Across more than two centuries, the Sellers family-especially Samuel's descendants Nathan, Escol, Coleman, and William-rose to prominence as manufacturers, engineers, social reformers, and urban and suburban developers, transforming Philadelphia into a center of industry and culture. They led a host of civic institutions including the Franklin Institute, Abolition Society, and University of Pennsylvania. At the same time, their vast network of relatives and associates became a leading force in the rise of American |
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industry in Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee, New York, and elsewhere.Engineering Philadelphia is a sweeping account of enterprise and ingenuity, economic development and urban planning, and the rise and fall of Philadelphia as an industrial metropolis. Domenic Vitiello tells the story of the influential Sellers family, placing their experiences in the broader context of industrialization and urbanization in the United States from the colonial era through World War II. The story of the Sellers family illustrates how family and business networks shaped the social, financial, and technological processes of industrial capitalism. As Vitiello documents, the Sellers family and their network profoundly influenced corporate and federal technology policy, manufacturing practice, infrastructure and building construction, and metropolitan development. Vitiello also links the family's declining fortunes to the deindustrialization of Philadelphia-and the nation-over the course of the twentieth century. |
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