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• Human Rights.

  - 2006-01-01

  Oxford University Press (OUP; Cary NC) has published "International Human Rights Lexicon," a 470-page softbound book that presents a survey of the scope and significance of international human rights law. Rather than giving an overview of the field, the book examines specific cases involving the range...

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• Flat-earth fighters; Animal-rights extremists.

  - 2005-02-05

  New laws to catch people-haters face the same problem as the old ones IF AWARDS were given for thinking up new ways to frighten people, Britain's animal-rights extremists would win lots of them. Their inventiveness and determination has frightened the government too. The ...

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• Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)

  - 2004-12-01

  AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD: TRADITIONALISM AND THE SECRET INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By MARK SEDGWICK. Oxford University Press. 370 pp. $35. There's tradition, and then there's Tradition (or "Traditionalism," as this fascinating survey would have it). Traditionalism has little to do...

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• A River Running West: The LIfe of John Wesley Powell

  - 2001-10-01

  A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell. By Donald Worster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xiii + 673 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. Major John Wesley Powell played a fabulous formative role in American environmental history. This semi-schooled, one-armed Civil War veteran was the...

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• The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995.(Review) (book reviews)

  - 1998-09-22

  The Transformation of British Politics, 1860-1995. By Brian Harrison. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. 618. $19.95.) As Brian Harrison observes, not many decades ago the British political system was the pride of the British and the envy of other peoples, many of...

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• A look at the 'Beliefs in Government' study.(Annual Meeting Program Preview)

  - 1996-06-01

  The 'Beliefs in Government' study is aimed at analyzing political beliefs and attitudes in several Western European countries. Surveys covering several countries from as far back the 1950s were compared and reanalyzed. Findings showed the persistence of some ideologies and beliefs and the emergence of some political actions that were...

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• Fiefs and Vassals: The Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted. (book reviews)

  - 1996-03-22

  By Susan Reynolds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi, 544. $29.95.) A generation ago, medievalists in the United States were beginning to suspect that feudalism was a modern construct that did not fit the facts. In 1974, these doubts, expressed by E....

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