...Cary Coglianese; Daniel E. Walters Abstract This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics” A considers what it might mean for the administrative state to be antipolitical. Two conceptions of an antipolitical administrative state are identified. The first of these—antipolitics...

...Michael Seidman According to James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed , the resistance of Southeast Asian “hill peoples” to state subordination manifested itself in their deliberate abandonment of both sedentary agriculture and literacy. He argues that “tribality” (group-generated state...

...Fang Lizhi Zhao Ziyan, Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyan , trans. and ed. Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009), 336 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE...

... niac who goes to bed in a closet,” the nineteenth-century canopy bed, enclosed 342 by silk curtains on all sides, becomes richly emblematic. To be awake in such a bed “in a state of vigilance or action” is metonymically related by the poet...

...Alick Isaacs Nusseibeh Sari , What Is a Palestinian State Worth? ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2011 ), 256 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS Nanno Marinatos, Minoan...

...Edward Heath; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Milward Alan S. , The European Rescue of the Nation-State ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 ), 477 pp. ...

...Nelson M. Kasfir Boyle Michael J. , Violence after War: Explaining Instability in Post-conflict States . ( Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2014 ), 433 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Stanley N. Katz © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 C O L U M N S DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM AFTER MILITARY OCCUPATION Reflections on the United States’ Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq...

...Norman Manea Darnton Robert , Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature . ( New York : Norton , 2014 ), 304 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...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...

...Michael Seidman Scott James C. , Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2017 ), 312 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Li tt le R ev ie w s 11 1James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History...

... access to legal means and were forced either into alternative dispute resolution or into autocoercion, in which marginalized people presented unity to outsiders to avoid state interference. This proposition constitutes a relevant advance in relation to previous approaches to conflict and harmony...

...J. G. A. Pocock This piece is an essay review of Wang Hui's book China from Empire to Nation-State (2014), which is a translation of the introduction to Wang's four-volume Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004). According to the reviewer, Wang studies less the modern history of China than its...

...Jennifer T. Roberts Abstract Recoiling from the power that Athenian democracy placed in the hands of the poor, the founding fathers of the United States took Athens as primarily an anti-model, whereas nineteenth-century defenders of slavery found Athens a very congenial model indeed, seeming...

..., and survivors as they were formulated during the last years of World War II and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Behind these images stood historical, concrete human beings who were classified according to concepts supplied by Zionist and historical Jewish culture, in which activism vs. quietism...

...Sanford F. Schram James C. Scott’s book The Art of Not Being Governed is offered, in this essay review, as the latest evidence of the high value of Scott’s transdisciplinary research into how ordinary people resist state power. Scott’s critics have found his work methodologically deficient...

...Lionel Gossman Even if its constituent members still define particular positions and pursue at times somewhat independent policies, the EU acts increasingly in important areas as the unified federal state many have long wanted it to be. It may have come into being in response to practical problems...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Johan M. G. van der Dennen In this introduction to the first installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means,” the journal's editor questions the assumptions that underwrite standard approaches in the social sciences to the issue of how non-state, tribal...

... the murderer is spared because of his services to the state. In the version of the story dramatized by the seventeenth-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, it is rather the Roman king who saves the surviving Horatius by deeming that his heroism places him above the law. This article considers whether...

... that the practice seemed almost transhistorical, something that was done always and everywhere. By the reign of Louis XIII, however, statesmen began stressing the limits of interdynastic marriage as a diplomatic strategy. This transformation of French affairs of state coincided with the appearance of prose romances...