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

ISBN 10: 1316519163 / ISBN 13: 9781316519165

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 4, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316519163
• ISBN 13: 9781316519165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.