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... in America since the early 1990s — particularly with respect to questions of gender, body, identity, violence, and materiality — and the formative role that her mentorship and pedagogy have played in the author's development as an art historian. Caroline Walker Bynum medieval art history...

...Henry Kamen J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 560 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett...

...Branka Arsić Seeman Erik R. , The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011 ), 163 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...J. H. Elliott; Jeffrey M. Perl Lynch John , New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 ), 384 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Santiago Zabala Woessner Martin , Heidegger in America ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 294 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church...

...J. H. Elliott Lynch John , New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2012 ), 384 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz, D’un...

...P. J. Marshall Yokota Kariann Akemi , Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 353 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE...

...János Boros © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 COLUMNS RORTY AND AMERICA, OVERSEAS János Boros Descartes c’est la France, as André Glucksmann has it, to which might be added: Rorty c’est les États-Unis.1...

...Daniel Herwitz Duke University Press 2002 COMEDIES OF MASTERY AND RECONCILIATION South Africa’s Taxi, America’s Rib Daniel Herwitz Rainbow Nation: the place where, finally, each band of color chromatically har...

...Roberto Bolaño; Chris Andrews Copyright © 1996 by Roberto Bolaño and Copyright © 2008 by the Heirs of Roberto Bolaño: all rights reserved 2008 not for sale FICTION AND POETRY FROM NAZI LITERATURE IN THE AMERICAS Roberto Bolaño...

...Mordechai Bar-On Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008), 245 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country...

... revealed a fundamental disjunction between their vision and hope for a properly Christian America, and their experience of an America which they characterized as misgoverned by a conspiracy of liberal judges and complaisant politicians. A subsequent roundtable discussion on the prospects for a written...

... offer to progressive Jews parallels and contrasts to contemporary Jewishness and Judaism. For some, Native America has become a path back to a reconstructed Jewishness and Judaism; for others, a path away. Each path is assessed in this article with respect to questions of authenticity, psychobiography...

... religious. She then examines the feminization of religion in nineteenth-century America and the growing idea at the time of female moral stewardship. After examining the contrasting approaches taken to the process of feminization by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fox-Genovese then takes...

... America has remained unstable. A central question underlying the history of race in the United States is how people could acknowledge the incoherence of racial categories while still structuring their lives, communities, politics, and culture around the idea of race. At a fundamental level, race has...

.... Thus, the audience for her campaign against analytic philosophy, for example, does not seem to reach beyond the walls of higher education in North America. Zwicky has aligned herself with an esoteric philosophical tradition (Heraclitus, Plato, Nietzsche, Heidegger) that has sought to achieve its aims...

..., the Greco-Roman world, medieval Europe, Africa, and Native America are examined to substantiate this claim. Premodern beliefs, moreover, about the consequences of killing are echoed in the symptoms of “moral injury” described by contemporary psychiatrists treating combat veterans, which suggests...

... goes by now without the appearance of a new book, newspaper article, conference, speech, or televi- sion discussion on whether America can appropriately be styled an empire, and, if so, whether this development is necessary and benign or irremediably sinister.2...

... rst from 1689 to 1815 11 sity Press, sity Nation the through and with 10 NACBS/report.html. ( America North in Studies ish 9...

... immediate concern. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, books appear, it seems almost daily, with titles such as Incoherent Empire, The Sorrows of Empire, America’s Inadvertent Empire, Resurrecting Empire, Common Knowledge 12:1 Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press 36...