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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 445.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Fang Lizhi; Jeffrey M. Perl Dikötter Frank , Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 ( New York : Walker , 2010 ), 448 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 373.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Fang Lizhi Dikötter Frank , Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 ( New York : Walker , 2010 ), 448 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS Nanno...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 340–347.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., Elaine Pagels, and Karen King—and with extended reference to Jonathan Lear's study of “cultural devastation,” Radical Hope —Jeffrey Perl explores the possibility that the fear of anomie (“anomiphobia”) is misplaced. He argues that, in comparison with the violence and narrowness of any given social order...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 341–342.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., (chilling mines the in labor and slavery child atincluding work, children punishment; ment ofcorporal turned to dust, women raped by the occupying Russian army, the homelessness homelessness army,the Russian occupying the womenby raped dust, to turned cities of devastation...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 165.
Published: 01 January 2020
... it without sensing that their projects were founded on and motivated by their comprehensive criticisms of naturalist social science. Blakely believes that these criticisms are devastating I am inclined to agree yet he also suggests that most social science as currently practiced has not internalized them...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 341.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., (chilling mines the in labor and slavery child atincluding work, children punishment; ment ofcorporal turned to dust, women raped by the occupying Russian army, the homelessness homelessness army,the Russian occupying the womenby raped dust, to turned cities of devastation...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 490–491.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Stephen Lovell These European elites were also, remarkably, able to revive representative democratic politics. Claims to sovereignty were far more compelling if they could be shown to have a popular mandate, and here European peoples played their part. The continent was hungry, devastated...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 342–343.
Published: 01 April 2015
...- (Princeton, NJ:PrincetonUniversity Press, 2013),288pp. Bohm-­Duchen, Monica doi 10.1215/0961754X-2872690 and terror oftwentieth- terror and devastation powerthe convey to the had purpose, made for the though as art, Modern modernism. within and with ofcompromises war. Itastory...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 315–317.
Published: 01 April 2013
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 January 2018
... Higher at the Studies ofSchool Cultural the in position philosophy. and She now holds a literature German) and (English comparative to atsheUniversity, herself devoted State Moscow Landing collapse. Soviet of the devastation economic the and war civil the by Caucasus out...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2015
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 477–496.
Published: 01 August 2007
... g e 482 a tough and,guy devastated, was silent. Your previous man acted I had to tell you about it in somebody’s head? to settle...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 261–278.
Published: 01 April 2006
...   with the devastating thought That devastating the of destruction. with own his...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (2): 185–197.
Published: 01 April 2005
... devastation the of Poland whowitnessed poets the among controversial been never have ment of barbarism,” as Walter Benjamin so famously remarked. tory,” in 21 tallest. the far by ofthem each towers, seven...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 51–64.
Published: 01 January 2013
... and written devastated, and poverty- and ­devastated, v, The Online Froissart Froissart v, Online...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 387–401.
Published: 01 April 2002
... or deliberate devastation, including the “consolidation” of the record, a euphemism for eliminating some unwanted or undesirable part of it. No archives from the ancient Mediterranean world have come down to us as such intact or, it has been argued, at all. We know that they existed, but even the great...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 361–366.
Published: 01 August 2005
... Asian state—an own herby devastated being was peoplethat Asian ofan representatives the toward her writings, in tactfully, and courteously behaving undeniably writer, American Sontag,the Susan country. ofahostile population civilian ofthe extermination the we now as through...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 55–61.
Published: 01 January 2014
... description ameticulous Apollo,” which in   example an is life,”my wasted have “I realization, devastating followedthe is by setting natural described plainly and observed of a minutely a presentation which in Minnesota,” Island, Pine in Farm Duffy’s at William a Hammock...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 324–330.
Published: 01 August 2009
... all imperfections; in their all these, due and law the is have do we What all. us for consequences devastating with mightopenup, society that in cracks outcome, fundamental acceptto the then 2008 for United the great affection States, andI wasconcernedelection ifthe of that, ends...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 April 2003
.... There is not now, nor could there have been, a rational mind able to comprehend and account for the devastations of the Second World War. Omissions on the part of residual ratio- nality, a half century of them, are readily visible through the lens...