...- ers, and religious citizens burdened with noncommunist ideas. The epoch of the so-called Cultural Revolution (1966–76) was the climax of “reform thinking”: anyone who had suffered so much as a moment’s deviation from Maoist ortho- doxy was censured. Beginning at that time, some thirty years ago...

...Charles R. Sullivan John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006), 265 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations...

...J. G. A. Pocock Nelson Eric , The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding . ( Cambridge, MA : Belknap , 2014 ), 400 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...J. G. A. Pocock Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 647 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009), 647...

...Charles Sullivan Israel Jonathan , A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 276 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Patrick Wilcken Paquette Gabriel , Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770 – 1850 . ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 266 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Lesley Chamberlain Although they have a religious origin, the terms quietist and quietism have generally been used in the anglophone world in the context created by the French Revolution, which made them expressions of political abuse. Examination of classic instances of their use shows...

..., dealing with aggression by projecting it outward and thereby creating enmities. Merging with a group superego allows for the perpetrating of atrocities in wars and revolutions that would never be pursued in our personal lives. Segal warns that the price for failing to recognize ambivalence in the nuclear...

...J. G. A. Pocock In this essay, the author both reviews Scott Sowerby's book Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (2013) and makes a late contribution to, or comment on, the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” (2011 – 13). Sowerby opposes the “Whig interpretation...

...—war, revolution, and what one scholar has called “secular kenosis ”—that mark radical differences between Russians and Americans. He then describes a debate between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky over whether morality demands military intervention when a barbarous regime practices widespread torture...

..., 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...

... is commendable and shows its application to an aspect of the life of Louis XVI that historians and ideologists of revolution have widely ridiculed. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 columns IN DEFENSE OF LOUIS XVI Miguel Tamen...

... the world more powerfully than metaphysical ideas and logical propositions. Revolutions are driven less by ideas than by philosophical wrath, exasperation with the existing order of things, and the feeling that the world is unjust. It is in this context that Epstein's essay defines the genre of lyric...

... years ago—from the period when glaciers expanded to cover much of the northern hemisphere until the “Neolithic revolution,” when, in the wake of the glaciers' retreat, people turned permanently to farming. The student-led discussions, reconstructed here, of the lives of these women show the value...

... the essential purposes of democracy in the face of majoritarian populism. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 antipolitics John Lilburne Levellers English Revolution democracy Ancient Greece is not the only site to search for models of democracy or for movable concepts and theories...

... Fleck's classic study of the genesis and development of a scientific fact. The broader approach of another classic study, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , will be discussed later. 5 My focus will be on two historical moments. In the first, at the turn from the seventeenth...

... of Revolution moreand the task devoted to the to clear became suddenly It reverse. the quite was it Scriabin completely,with people such trust to unable always was she understandably, if, and chance, of matter a as her struck and her puzzled frequently others of participation...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008), 239 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale...

...John Boardman Marina Belozerskaya, To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology (New York: Norton, 2009), 308 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale...

...William M. Chace Declan Kiberd, Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), 416 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University...