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"This volume examines how writers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed and propagated new ideas about rights, and offers a global perspective on rights-making. A comprehensive resource for students and scholars of intellectual, social, and political history"--
List of contents
Part I. A Revolution in Rights?: 1. Barbeyrac's intervention. Grotius, Pufendorf, Locke David Grewal; 2. Rights, mercantile capitalism and the bourgeois revolution: the rise of political economy Martti Koskenniemi; 3. Social rights Glauco Schettini and Charles Walton; 4. Rights in Enlightenment theories of rights Céline Spector; 5. Rights, property, and politics: Hume to Hegel Richard Bourke; 6. Antislavery in the age of rights: or, the rights of slaves confront the right to slaves Christopher Leslie Brown; 7. The Enlightenment Constitutionalism and the rights of man Vincenzo Ferrone; 8. Fundamental rights at the American founding Jud Campbell; 9. Declarations of rights Jeremy D. Popkin; 10. The rights of women (or women's rights) Karen Offen; 11. The image of rights in the French Revolution Adam Lebovitz; Part II. Post-Revolutionary Rights: 12. On the nadir of natural rights theory in nineteenth-century Britain Gregory Conti; 13. The 1789 declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen: a civil creed of the French republic? Valentine Zuber; 14. Rights in the thought of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel Frederick Neuhouser; 15. Rights and socialism 1750-1880 Gareth Stedman Jones; 16. Economic liberalism and rights in the nineteenth century David Todd; 17. Human rights during the 1848 revolutions Mike Rapport; Part III. Rights and Empires: 18. Rights and empires: relations of authority Lauren Benton and Jane Burbank; 19. Rights in Late Mughal and Early Colonial India Hasan Zahid Siddiqui; 20. Rights in the Americas Joshua Simon; 21. The free sea: an antislavery of human rights Amy Dru Stanley; 22. Abolition and Imperialism in Africa Bronwen Everill; 23. Rights in Pan-Asian, Pan-Islamic, and Pan-African thought Cemil Aydin; 24. Indigenous rights in settler colonies Saliha Belmessous; 25. Catholicism and rights: politics, economics and, sexuality Udi Greenberg; 26. (Human) Rights Associations (1775-1898) Wolfgang Schmale.
About the author
Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and (by courtesy) of Political Science and History at Stanford University.Jennifer Pitts is Professor of Political Science and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
