The End of Human Rights: Critical Thought at the Turn of the Century 1841130001, 9781841130002

The End of Human Rights: Critical Thought at the Turn of the Century 9781509955527, 9781841130002

The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights, yet no sustained examination

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The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century 9781442653856

This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fic

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Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century 9780824861728

This is the first study in a half century of one of the least known societies in the contemporary world. Burma at the Tu

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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire 9781501714672

Some of the topics discussed in the book, such as the use of violence against civilians, the desire to uphold human righ

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True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 9781479860500

Winner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE Award The incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities i

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The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century 9780292771802

The romance genre was a popular literary form among writers and readers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,

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The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century 9780822390008

An anthology that explores film works by the "urban generation,"--filmmakers who operate outside of "main

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The Unraveling of Scientism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century 9781501728488

The Unraveling of Scientism, a companion to Joseph Margolis's Reinventing Pragmatism, follows the thread of America

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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 149623412X, 9781496234124

Once just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had

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Darkened Enlightenment: The Deterioration of Democracy, Human Rights, and Rational Thought in the Twenty-First Century 9780367461294, 9780367461300, 9781003027096

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