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.

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