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The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 3: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 3: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Name: The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 3: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108837323
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Author: Andrew Fitzmaurice; Rachel Hammersley
ISBN: 9781108837323

Edited by Andrew Fitzmaurice · Rachel Hammersley

Cambridge University Press January 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781108837323
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, contemporary authors explored the myriad ways in which the concept of rights could be understood, but almost always arrived at the same conclusion: it was vital that rights should never be conflated with power. Through twenty-six expertly written essays, volume three of The Cambridge History of Rights focuses on the language of rights, exploring its use in contexts as diverse as the English family, trading relations and Asian powers. This was a period in which rights came to the forefront of political discourse, making it crucial to the longer history of rights reflected in this series.

By foregrounding the idea of rights in action, the volume considers the relationship between the ways in which rights were articulated – by individuals, institutions and states – and how they were enacted in practice. In doing so, it uncovers the complexities inherent in the development of the language of rights during this formative period.

Introduction

Andrew Fitzmaurice and Rachel Hammersley

1. Roman law: the science of right

Daniel Lee

2. Natural rights Mads

Langballe Jensen

3. Historic rights in sixteenth-century France

Sophie Nicholls

4. Common law rights

Alan Cromartie

5. The rights of states to self-preservation

Simone Zurbuchen

6. The Right of natural persons to self-preservation

Rosemarie Wagner

7. Divine right in early modern political thought

Cesare Cuttica

8. The right to punish

Signey Gutnick Allen

9. The rights of war and peace

Peter Schröder

10. The right of navigation: claiming and challenging the free sea in theory and practice

Arthur Westeijn

11. The right to trade, 1500 –1700

Mark Somos

12. The right to property

Andrew Fitzmaurice

13. Fair trials in law: imagining the rights of the accused

Paul D. Halliday

14. Freedom of religion

Stefania Tutino

15. The right of resistance

Kajo Kubala

16. The Right to Political participation and representation

Markku Peltonen

17. Rights and power in early modern feminism

Hannah Dawson

18. Gender and rights

Anna Becker

19. The rights of women

Sharon Achinstein

20. The rights of the insane

Angus Gowland

21. The rights of asylum

Gaby Mahlberg

22. The rights of peoples in Spain and its empire

Tamar Herzog

23. The rights of people in the English empire

Ken Macmillan

24. Rights in the seventeenth-century French empire

Saliha Belmessous

25. Rights, authority, and autonomy: the VOC in seventeenth century Southeast Asia

Peter Borschberg

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