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Why Human Rights?

A Philosophical Guide

By: Eric Blumenson

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Why Human Rights?: A Philosophical Guide explores the three fundamental philosophical claims underlying the moral idea of human rights: (1) Universal justice, and objections to it on relativist and diversity grounds. This question is integral to many human rights claims regarding, for example, gender discrimination, caning punishments, and child marriages in traditional societies, all of which assume justice can be global, not only local. (2) Human equality, and hierarchical moral status claims like caste. Moral status claims are also central to current controversies over abortion, assisted suicide, and animal rights, among others. (3) Individual rights, and collectivist counterclaims from utilitarians and communitarians -- a debate reflected in the post 9-11 argument over American reliance on torture-enhanced interrogation. Because these issues lie at the heart of moral and political philosophy, readers will also obtain a broad appreciation of these disciplines and its leading theorists, including Mill, Kant, Rawls, Sandel, Nozick, Rorty, and many others. Written in concise, jargon-free language, this book presents a high-relief map of the philosophical foundations of the human rights idea at a time of mushrooming illiberal challenges to it.

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157

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Taylor & Francis

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1040102123

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9781040102121

Commander in Chief

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, HisLieutenants, and Their War

By: Eric Larrabee

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Commander in Chief

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, HisLieutenants, and Their War

By: Eric Larrabee

Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D. Roosevelt. He intervened in military operations more often and to better effect than his contemporaries Churchill and Stalin, and maneuvered events so that the Grand Alliance was directed from Washington. In this expansive history, Eric Larrabee examines the extent and importance of FDR's wartime leadership through his key military leaders—Marshall, King, Arnold, MacArthur, Vandergrift, Nimitz, Eisenhower, Stilwell, and LeMay. Devoting a chapter to each man, the author studies Roosevelt's impact on their personalities, their battles (sometimes with each other), and the consequences of their decisions. He also addresses such critical subjects as Roosevelt's responsibility for the war and how well it achieved his goals. First published in 1987, this comprehensive portrait of the titans of the American military effort in World War II is available in a new paperback edition for the first time in sixteen years.

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740

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Naval Institute Press

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1682471748

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9781682471746

AIA Detroit

The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture

By: Eric J. Hill,John Gallagher

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AIA Detroit

The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture

By: Eric J. Hill,John Gallagher

A beautifully designed resource that takes readers on a tour of greater Detroit's many architectural wonders and special landmarks.

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386

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Wayne State University Press

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0814331203

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9780814331200

In a Time of Total War

The Federal Judiciary and the National Defense - 1940-1954

By: Joshua E. Kastenberg,Eric Merriam

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In a Time of Total War

The Federal Judiciary and the National Defense - 1940-1954

By: Joshua E. Kastenberg,Eric Merriam

This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954. As such, it is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War. Civil liberties, mass conscription, expanded military jurisdiction, property rights, labor relations, and war crimes arising from the conflict were all issues to come before the federal judiciary during this period and well beyond since the Supreme Court and the lower courts heard appeals from the government’s wartime decisions well into the 1970s. A detailed study of the judiciary during World War II evidences that while the majority of the justices and judges determined appeals partly on the basis of enabling a large, disciplined, and reliable military to either deter or fight a third world war, there was a recognition of the existence of a tension between civil rights and liberties on the one side and military necessity on the other. While the majority of the judiciary tilted toward national security and deference to the military establishment, the judiciary’s recognition of this tension created a foundation for persons to challenge governmental narrowing of civil and individual rights after 1954. Kastenberg and Merriam present a clearer picture as to why the Court and the lower courts determined the issues before them in terms of external influences from both national and world-wide events. This book is also a study of civil-military relations in wartime so whilst legal scholars will find this study captivating, so will military and political historians, as well as political scientists and national security policy makers.

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Routledge

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1317118065

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Dictionary of the Holocaust

Biography, Geography, and Terminology

By: Eric J. Epstein,Philip Rosen

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Dictionary of the Holocaust

Biography, Geography, and Terminology

By: Eric J. Epstein,Philip Rosen

This concise, easy-to-use resource on the Holocaust is rich in factual and statistical information, and provides a comprehensive compilation of the people and terms that are essential for an understanding of the Holocaust. In 2,000 entries, it profiles major personalities, covers concentration and death camps, cities and countries, and significant events. Also included are important terms translated from German, French, Polish, Yiddish, and twelve other languages. Biographical entries give a brief history, the person's significance, and their historical context. Geographical entries pinpoint exact locations using other cities or countries as landmarks, and give the number of Jewish inhabitants before Nazi occupation, and the percentage of Jews killed. Historical background is provided for such events as Kristallnacht and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and entries on concentration and death camps give details on the nationalities interned, the camp's specific location, and its history. This reference is impressive in its scope and includes major perpetrators, bystanders, collaborators, victims, rescuers such as Righteous Gentiles, Jewish ghetto fighters, and partisans. It also explores the role of women and the complicity of physicians and industrialists during the Holocaust more fully than any other reference. This dictionary provides the information needed by students whose understanding of the Holocaust is limited by the absence of a single accessible research text.

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