We the People?: The United States and the Question of Rights: 309 (American Studies - A Monograph) - Hardcover

 
9783825347628: We the People?: The United States and the Question of Rights: 309 (American Studies - A Monograph)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3825347621 ISBN 13: 9783825347628
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2020

Synopsis

The foundational vision of the U.S. polity as a political edifice of liberty and equal rights (Abraham Lincoln) has held immense symbolic power and bred both aspirations and discontent. It has served as the source for various interconnected, yet often also conflicting, narratives and discourses through which the question of human and civil rights in the U.S. has been constantly debated and re-negotiated. This volume investigates the U.S.-American culture of rights as it has evolved and continues to evolve throughout U.S. (legal) history as well as in U.S. literature and in popular culture. It demonstrates that the question of rights has been posed differently by members of the various groups and cultures that have historically constituted the United States, and that the answers to these questions changed significantly over time.

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Publisher
Universitatsverlag Winter
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3825347621
ISBN 13 
9783825347628
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
312
Editor
Brittner Irina, Meyer Sabine N, Schneck Peter