Human rights [[electronic resource] /] / Anthony Woodiwiss
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Woodiwiss Anthony
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| Titolo: |
Human rights [[electronic resource] /] / Anthony Woodiwiss
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Routledge, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human rights |
| Political science | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: RIGHTS AND POWER; 1 The paradox of human rights; 2 Towards a sociology of rights; 3 From rights to liberty in England and the United States; 4 The comparative sociology of rights regimes; 5 From liberty to the 'rule of (property) law' in the United States; 6 Japan, the rule of law and the absence of liberty; 7 The United States and the invention of human rights; 8 The Warren Court; 9 The United Nations and the internationalisation of American rights discourse; 10 Making an example of Japan |
| 11 The desire for equality and the emergence of a sociology for human rightsConclusion: for a new universalism; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Human rights |
| ISBN: | 1-280-15070-X |
| 9780203008596 | |
| 0-203-00859-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450799503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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