Human and civil rights essential primary sources / [electronic resource] :
K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, editors.
- Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2006.
- 1 online resource (xliii, 519 p.) : ill.
- Social issues primary sources collection Gale virtual reference library .
- Social issues primary sources collection. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Advisors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- About the set -- Introduction -- About the entry -- Using primary sources -- Chronology -- Development of human rights -- Slavery and genocide -- Imprisonment -- Health and housing -- Labor and working conditions -- Civil and political rights -- Borders, sovereignty and culture -- Education and childhood -- Sources consulted -- Index.
These volumes of primary source documents focus on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. International in scope, each title is devoted to one topic.