The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 4, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781316519165 Author(s): Dan Edelstein Format: Hardcover Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pages: 696 Series: The Cambridge History of Rights

Description: The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Rights shows that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are better understood as a time of transformation, extending rights-making to meet the needs of a modernizing world. Rights became a means of liberation for religious minorities, the economic downtrodden, women, slaves, and others. But rights also became a means of control, especially in European colonies around the world, as well as in liberal economic regimes that protected property rights. Through twenty-six essays from experts across the world, this volume serves as an authoritative reference for the development of rights across this period of history.

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