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...Jason E. Smith This essay situates recent calls for a return to the organizational form of the party by Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean in the current historical conjuncture. This conjuncture is described as an “age of riots”; this age, in turn, is defined both by a global capitalist crisis...

... of the Atmosphere through the Ages.” Meteorological Magazine 74 , no. 878 : 33 – 39 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2009 . “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry 35 , no. 2 : 197 – 222 . Chandler James . 2009 . “Introduction: Doctrines, Disciplines, Discourses, Departments...

...J. Victor Koschmann 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 J. Victor Koschmann National Subjectivity and the Uses of Atonement in the Age of Recession Deeply rooted...

...Keir Milburn Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party has allowed age to emerge as a dramatic new axis of political division. This article treats the political generation gap as, in part, a transformation in class composition. Most notably, starting with the political age divide makes...

...Vivian Sobchack Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Vivian Sobchack New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000 In early 1991, Artforum International asked me to write a short essay that would make sense of Mondo 2000 a strange but hot new magazine that had happened...

...John A. McClure Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 John A. McClure Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy DeLillo crafts his fictions out of the forms of popular romance: out of the espio­ nage thriller, the imperial adventure novel, the western, science fiction...

...Guy V. Beckwith Technology and Myth in the Homeric Age Guy V. Beckwith Technology plays an important role in the Homeric epics, as Samuel Florman demonstrates in The Existential Pleasures ofEngineering) The num­ ber of references to tools and techniques in Homer in an age we might consider...

...Gary Bullert Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Lewis Mumford: Prophet of the New Age Gary Bullert Lewis Mumford is widely celebrated as one of America s most distin­ guished men of letters in the twentieth century. An active participant in the literary-intellectual battles of his...

...Stephen J. Whitfield BOOKS Einstein in America: The Scientist s Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima. By Jamie Sayen. New York: Crown, 1985. Pp. ix, 340. $17.95. The most famous scientist who ever lived was endowed with a radiant sim­ plicity of character, and yet the inner world...

... The Innocuousness of State Lethality in an Age of National Security What is required is thus a sovereignty, a force that is stronger than all the other forces in the world. But if the constitution of this force is, in principle, supposed...

...John H. Fisher Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer . By Muscatine Charles . Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1972 ( University of Notre Dame Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language and Literature, Volume 4 ). Pp. vii , 168 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke...

...William M. Armstrong Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Godkin s Nation as a Source o£ Gilded Age History: How Valuable? William M. Armstrong I Christmas Season 1899. Dusk was falling over Manhattan as E. L. Godkin, the aging sage of the Nation now retiring as editor-in-chief...

...Wallace E. Caldwell Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 THE AGE OF PERICLES: AN INTERPRETATION WALLACE E. CALDWELL University of North Carolina ISAY that Athens is the school of Hellas and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself...

...L. L. Bernard Herbert Spencer: The Man and His Age L. L. Bernard The University of Minnesota Very rarely, if at all, has the world changed so much in one century as in the hundred years since Herbert Spencer first saw the light in the little quiet town of Derby. As he says, in his early childhood...

...Robert Markley Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Robert Markley Land enough in the World : Locke s Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of Use God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon, Of Gardens ardens haunt...

...Paul D. Escott Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War . By Foner Eric . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. 3 , 250 . $15.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 492 The South Atlantic Quarterly no apology. It is a perfectly reasonable goal...

...Leonard Schlup Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Democratic Talleyrand Adlai E. Stevenson and Politics in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Leonard Schlup Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1835-1914), the twenty-third vice-president of the United States and patriarch of a prominent family...

...Charles E. Wynes Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914 . By Ginger Ray . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1965 . Pp. x , 386 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 162 The South Atlantic Quarterly Age of Excess: The United States from 1877...

...Anne Firor Scott Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys . By Rogers George C. Jr. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1969 . Pp. xv , 173 . $2.95 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 169 The antislavery movement clearly included a wide range...