Two cultures of rights :  the quest for inclusion and participation in modern America and Germany / 
edited by Manfred Berg, Martin H. Geyer. 
 - Washington, D.C. :  German Historical Institute ;  [(c)2002.] New York :  Cambridge University Press,  [(c)2002.] 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) 
 - Publications of the German Historical Institute .
 - Publications of the German Historical Institute. .
<br/><br/> Papers of a conference held in Washington, D.C. in June 1997 and sponsored by the German Historical Institute. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Asian Americans: rights denied and attained /  Individual right and collective interests: the NAACP and the American voting rights discourse /  Securing rights by action, securing rights by default: American Jews in historical perspective /  From civil rights to civic death: dismantling rights in Nazi Germany /  The rights of aliens in Germany and the United States /  right to work is the right to live!" Fair employment and the quest for social citizenship /  Social rights and citizenship during World War II /  Just desserts: virtue, agency, and property in mid-twentieth-century Germany /  The political culture of rights: postwar Germany and the United States in comparative perspective /  The emerging right to information /  Feminist movements in the United States and Germany: a comparative perspective, 1848-1933 /  Minorities, civil rights, and political culture: gay and lesbian rights in Germany and the United States /  Roger Daniels --  Manfred Berg --  Hasia R. Diner --  Karl A. Schleunes --  Christian Joppke --  Eileen Boris --  Martin H. Geyer --  Michael L. Hughes --  Hugh Davis Graham --  Margaret S. Dalton --  Ann Taylor Allen --  Michael Dreyer. 
<br/><br/> This collection addresses key issues in the historical struggle for civil rights, political rights and social rights in the United States and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the present. Using a cross-national comparative approach, this book presents national case studies that explore the similarities and differences of conceptualizing rights on both sides of the Atlantic. This book analyses the struggle for these rights by individuals and groups and how this struggle became an essential feature not only in political discourse but also in social and political practice and culture in both Germany and the United States. More specifically, the book examines the different ways rights have been denied due to race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Considerable attention is given to the impact of Nazism and the struggle for social rights during and after World War II. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0511067321 9780511067327 0511119070 9780511119071 9781139052337 1139052330 0521792665 9780521792660 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights--United States--Congresses.<br/>Human rights--Germany--Congresses.<br/>Civil rights--United States--Congresses.<br/>Civil rights--Germany--Congresses.<br/>Civil rights--Congresses.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC571