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EBOOK Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912957
EAN: 12C737B5EB
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Stron: 656
Data wydania: 2012
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Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and        the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities,        mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep        concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these elements take        different forms, because constellations of value are far apart. The dream of living        free is America's Polaris; fairness and natural justice are New Zealand's Southern        Cross.Fischer asks why these similar countries went different ways. Both were        founded by English-speaking colonists, but at different times and with disparate        purposes. They lived in the first and second British Empires, which operated in very        different ways. Indians and Maori were important agents of change, but to different        ends. On the American frontier and in New Zealand's Bush, material possibilities and        moral choices were not the same. Fischer takes the same comparative approach to        parallel processes of nation-building and immigration, women's rights and racial        wrongs, reform causes and conservative responses, war-fighting and peace-making, and        global engagement in our own time--with similar results.On another level, this book        expands Fischer's past work on liberty and freedom. It is the first book to be        published on the history of fairness. And it also poses new questions in the old        tradition of history and moral philosophy. Is it possible to be both fair and free?        In a vast array of evidence, Fischer finds that the strengths of these great values        are needed to correct their weaknesses. As many societies seek to become more        open--never twice in the same way, an understanding of our differences is the only        path to peace.

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