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The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 4 provides a comprehensive exploration of how rights concepts transformed during two pivotal centuries of Western history. Editors Dan Edelstein and Jennifer Pitts bring together leading scholars to examine the intellectual, political, and social forces that shaped understandings of human rights, political rights, and social rights from the Enlightenment through the Industrial Age.
The volume traces the emergence of modern rights discourse, from philosophical debates in salons and universities to revolutionary movements and political reforms. It covers major developments including the American and French Revolutions, the rise of liberalism, debates over slavery and women’s rights, and the emergence of labor and social rights. Contributors analyze how different regions, thinkers, and social movements conceived of rights, revealing both the universal aspirations and particular contexts that defined this transformative period.
Essential for scholars and students of intellectual history, political theory, and the development of human rights concepts, this work demonstrates how eighteenth and nineteenth-century struggles over rights continue to resonate in contemporary debates.
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