The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789

orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x15cm, x, 436 pp Contains 8 papers: D.D. Bien "Old Regime Origins of Democratic Liberty"; D.van Kley "From the Lessons of French History to Truths for All Times & All People: the Historical Origins of an Anti-Historical Declaration"; S.M.Singham "Betwixt Cattle & Men: Jews, Blacks & Women, & the Declaration of the Rights of Man; K.M. Baker "The Idea of a Declaration of Rights"; J.K. Wright "National Soveignty & the General Will: The Poltical Program of the Declaration of Rights; D.A. Bell "Safeguarding the Rights of the Accused: Lawyers & Political Trials in France, 1716-1789; Religious Toleration & Freedom of Expression"; T.E. Kaiser "Property, Sovereignty, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, & the Tradition of French Jurisprudence". Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.