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Autore |
Woodiwiss Anthony |
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Titolo |
Human rights / / Anthony Woodiwiss |
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London, : Routledge, 2005 |
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9781134236633 |
1134236638 |
9781280150708 |
128015070X |
9780203008591 |
0203008596 |
9780203008596 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages) |
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Collana |
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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 record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-168) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Rights and power -- Making rights -- The paradox of human rights -- Towards a sociology of rights -- From rights to liberty in England and the United States -- The comparative sociology of rights regimes -- From liberty to the 'rule of (property) law' in the United States -- Japan, the rule of law and the absence of liberty -- Righting the world? -- The United States and the invention of human rights -- The Warren Court: setting the international human rights agenda -- The United Nations and the internationalisation of American rights discourse -- Making an example of Japan -- The desire for equality and the emergence of a sociology for human rights -- Conclusion: for a new universalism. |
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Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Anthony Woodiwiss provides, for the first time, a general sociological account of the development of |
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