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...J. G. A. Pocock Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, 3 vols.: Regarding Method, Renaissance Virtues, Hobbes and Civic Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 1,088 pp. Duke University Press 2004 REVIEW QUENTIN SKINNER The History of Politics...

...J. G. A. Pocock Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), 232 pp. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), 264 pp. Duke...

...J. G. A. Pocock Anthony Grafton, What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 330 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama...

...Michael Seidman Duke University Press 2007 S y m p o s i u m : U n s o c i a l T h o u g h t , U n c o m m o n L i v e s , Pa r t 3 SOCIAL HISTORY AND ANTISOCIAL HISTORY Michael Seidman Why not narrate a politics of contempt...

...Roy Wagner Scott James C. , Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2017 ), 336 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 5 6 James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Schmitt Jean-Claude , The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History and Fiction in the Twelfth Century , trans. Novikoff Alex J. ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2010 ), 303 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

..., with Václav Havel, coorganizer of Charter 77. From his insider’s perspective, the author retells the history of dissent in communist Europe from that time until the Velvet Revolution and Havel’s election as president of Czechoslovakia in 1989. He also assesses the impact of Havel’s work as a playwright...

... evasion) is the polar opposite of “peasantry” (state-controlled agriculture). The hill peoples’ foraging and swiddening were thus political choices. Scott’s anthropological and geographical approach to these historical studies is admirable, but, despite his book’s subtitle ( An Anarchist History of Upland...

...Peter T. Leeson James C. Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia argues that the Zomia people of Southeast Asia consciously chose to live without government and that their choice was sensible. Yet basic economic reasoning, reflected in Hobbes’s classic...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Freeman Charles , Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2011 ), 306 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE...

...G. Thomas Tanselle David Pearson, Books as History: The Importance of Books beyond Their Texts (London: British Library, 2008), 208 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion...

...Miguel Tamen Ross Hamilton, Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 320 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion...

...Shira Wolosky Seth Lerer, Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 396 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War...

... reviews NEW ART HISTORY Wayne Andersen Jed Perl, New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century (New York: Vintage, 2007), 656 pp. Jed Perl, Antoine’s Alphabet: Watteau and His World (New York: Vintage, 2008), 224 pp. Part One General histories may respond to millennia, but art history...

...Stanley N. Katz Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie, eds., Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 480 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation...

...J. G. A. Pocock Bernard Bailyn, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 160 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment...

...Caryl Emerson Senelick Laurence and Ostrovsky Sergei , eds., The Soviet Theater: A Documentary History . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 707 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Marcel Detienne Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Ashraf Noor MURDEROUS IDENTITY Anthropology, History, and the Art of Constructing Comparables Marcel Detienne Translated by Ashraf Noor...

... Press 204 of tone) on science studies, by Steven Feierman on writing the colonial history of Africa, by Caroline Bynum on writings, modern and medieval, about “the 205 body,” and by Jerrold Seigel on the problematics of the self are valuable, and in Bynum’s case genuinely innovative...

...Eric Vuillard © ACTES SUD, 2014 2014 not for sale POETRY AND FICTION THE EARTH’S SORROW A History of Buffalo Bill Cody Eric Vuillard Translated by Ann Jefferson The Museum of Mankind Spectacle...