The pursuit of equality in American history
1978, First Edition. Berkeley : University of California Press. Very good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477611
ISBN: 0520032861
Series; Jefferson memorial lectures. Physical description; xv, 380 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The idea of equality in a hostile world – The meanings of a self-evident truth – Religion and conscience: do good fences make good neighbors? – The emergence of religious pluralism – The constitutional aegis and the emergence of individualism – Equality and political community: who are the people of the United States? – More separate than equal – Opportunity, race and the concept of pluralism – Remaking the constitutional environment – Sex: where equality is not identity – An incomplete revolution. Subjects; Equality before the law – United States – History. Civil rights – United States – History. Constitutional history – United States – 20th century.
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