...John Boardman Cline Eric H. , 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 ), 241 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Prasenjit Duara Anthony Pagden, Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle between East and West (New York: Random House, 2008), 656 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy...

...G. Thomas Tanselle [email protected] Robin Myers , Michael Harris , and Giles Mandelbrote , eds., Lives in Book History: Changing Contours of Research over Forty Years ( London : Garendon Press , 2022 ), 144 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 One...

...Joachim Whaley Wilson Peter , The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History . ( London : Allen Lane , 2016 ), 942 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... a progressive thinker and doer been so neatly, so personally, undone by his own culture, as though the gods had singled him out for a lesson. Pick’s work as a patron of design survived, but so did the irony of embracing the “wrong” modernism. Seventy years...

...Alexander Solzhenitsyn Editions Fayard, Paris, France 2001 Translated by Jamey Gambrell CK 9.2-04 Solzhenitsyn 3/14/03 10:48 AM Page 204 TWO HUNDRED YEARS TOGETHER Alexander Solzhenitsyn Translated by Jamey...

...Charles Foster [email protected] Raghu Chundawat , The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park ( New Delhi : Speaking Tiger , 2018 ), 356 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This is a very unusual book...

...” years between distinct eras or directions also raise larger questions about the premises and practices of literary history itself. Duke University Press 2008 Symposium: Devalued Currency, Part 3 MISSING YEARS On Casualties in English Literary History, Prior to Pope...

...William M. Chace Moody David , Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years, 1921 – 1939 . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 421 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Lorraine Daston Charles Coulston Gillispie, Science and Polity in France: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Years (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 751 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology...

...Philip Gossett Page Christopher , The Christian West and Its Singers: The First Thousand Years ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2010 ), 692 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Greil Marcus The author, who lived in Berkeley, California during the disruptions of 1968, remembers the year as one of bad faith, though also of a sense of making history. He recalls the events of that year (and of 1964) in Berkeley, where he still lives, then moves out into related events...

..., and Jews, during the years 1100–1400, shared a single “religious culture.” The editor replies by showing how the three monotheisms share a religious culture even today in Jerusalem and the Holy Land and that they are developing one as well elsewhere in the world. The author describes the progress toward...

...William P. Caferro This contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Inside the Humanities Classroom” describes the experience of teaching a single class meeting of the year-long Western Civilization survey course at Vanderbilt University. The essay examines both...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl In this introduction to the silver anniversary issue of Common Knowledge , the journal’s founding editor explains the unusual format of CK 25:1–3. Arranged in eleven “conversations” of pieces published since 1992, the format fulfills a promise made in that year...

...Michiko Urita; Jeffrey M. Perl This article responds to Jeffrey Perl’s argument (in “Regarding Change at Ise Jingū,” Common Knowledge , Spring 2008) that, while there is a “paradigm shift” at Ise every twenty years, when the enshrined deity Amaterasu “shifts” from the current site to an adjacent...

... of “communicative silencing,” during the Adenauer years from 1949-63 in which the second reconstruction generation chose not to speak of the past but rather to concentrate on building the Wirtschaftswunder. The student movement of the 1960s challenged this presentism with demands for disclosure and accountability...

...Richard Rorty Abstract Among Rorty's most admired essays, and probably his most autobiographical, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” made its first appearance as a column in Common Knowledge during the journal's inaugural year. Here it is reprinted, thirty years later, in a symposium called “Whatever...

...Michiko Urita This article responds to Jeffrey Perl's argument (in “Regarding Change at Ise Jingū,” Common Knowledge , Spring 2008) that, while there is a “paradigm shift” at Ise every twenty years, when the enshrined deity Amaterasu “shifts” from the current site to an adjacent one during the rite...