2. The politics of trust
John Dunn
in Locke: A Very Short Introduction
‘The Politics of Trust’ considers the nature of political authority. Locke initially feared any challenge to the authority of a monarch, because of the danger of disorder, but eventually ...
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8. Security
David J. Bodenhamer
in The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
Armed conflict poses an imminent threat to the nation’s existence, but so does suspension of the nation’s fundamental laws. The framers wrestled with how to grant government the power to ...
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Introduction: mass immigration, past and present
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
The United States is a nation of diverse peoples bound together through an allegiance to the constitution. The Introduction looks at where the people of the United States have come from and ...
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4. Property
David J. Bodenhamer
in The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
The Constitution of 1787 contains no broad guarantee of the right to property, but it established numerous protections for property. ‘Property’ explains that the right to property found ...
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5. Representation
David J. Bodenhamer
in The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
More than most constitutional issues, questions of representation and suffrage have exposed the fault lines of class, race, and gender in American society. Popular sovereignty was the ...
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5. Deprivations of life and liberty
Andrew Clapham
in Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Deprivations of life and liberty’ considers the rights to life and liberty, which may be limited through legal restrictions designed to protect a defined legitimate objective. The human ...
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6. Balancing rights—free speech and privacy
Andrew Clapham
in Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Balancing rights—free speech and privacy’ considers the human rights that have built-in limitations. The thrust of international human rights law for these rights is that limitations to ...
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The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction
James Marten
The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction describes the differing experiences of childhood across time and place, focusing on conflict, change, war, reform, and the issues and ...
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8. Discrimination and equality
Andrew Clapham
in Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
‘Discrimination and equality’ considers the prohibited grounds of discrimination (based on age, sexuality, religion, nationality, gender, and disability); what new grounds may be emerging; ...
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3. Human rights foreign policy and the role of the United Nations
Andrew Clapham
in Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
How are human rights put into practice? What does it mean when governments announce that their foreign policy is concerned with promoting and protecting human rights? Where is the ...
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Epilogue
Heather Andrea Williams
in American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
Despite the abolition of slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, notions of black inferiority and white supremacy still persisted in both the North and the South. The ...
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Family Law: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Herring
Family Law: A Very Short Introduction provides insight not only into what family law is, but why it is the way it is. How have laws had to respond to social changes in family ...
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3. The people called Methodists
William J. Abraham
in Methodism: A Very Short Introduction
The initial agenda of Methodism as a renewal movement in the Church of England was ‘to reform England, especially the church, and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land’. Like ...
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3. Governing Italy
Anna Cento Bull
in Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
One strand of controversy and debate concerning Italy’s path to modernity has focused on its political system and style of government. In liberal Italy, there are two styles of governing: ...
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5. Emigration, immigration, and citizenship
Anna Cento Bull
in Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction
‘Emigration, immigration, and citizenship’ describes how modern Italy has been characterized by mass emigration. In 1861-1990 over twenty-eight million Italians left their country, mainly ...
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8. Beyond institutional racism: ‘race’, class, and gender in the USA and Britain
Ali Rattansi
in Racism: A Very Short Introduction
The term institutional racism dates back to the late 1960s and refers to the process by which irrespective of individual attitudes, motivations, and behaviour with respect to racism, all ...
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American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
David A. Gerber
American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction examines the many legal efforts to curb immigration and to define who is and is not an American. It looks at immigration from ...
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6. The widening mainstream
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
There have always been anxieties among the American population about a perceived unwillingness of immigrants to become Americans. Ethnicity has been a phenomenon common to all immigrant ...
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3. Removing barriers and debating consequences in the mid-twentieth century
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
World War II saw the beginning of a process of rethinking American immigration and naturalization. The United States had an international image problem to deal with. ‘Removing barriers and ...
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7. The future of assimilation
David A. Gerber
in American Immigration: A Very Short Introduction
American institutions have from the start been shaped around accommodating differences. Some commentators now believe that this culture has ended and that current mass immigration is ...
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