... strategy African Americans have invoked to argue for civil and political rights, including defining civil rights as pertaining only or primarily to “racial rights” and idealizing black men as the necessary “leaders” for civil rights attainment. Situating Gaines within the context of his contemporaries, I...

...Richard N. Current Civil War in the Making, 1815-1960 . By Craven Avery O. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1959 . 115 pp. $3.00 . The American Tragedy: The Civil War in Retrospect . By Craven Avery O. Vandiver Frank E. . With an introduction...

...Joseph J. Mathews Germany and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 . Vol. III , Series D, Department of State, Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1937-1945 . Washington : Government Printing Office . 1950 . Pp. xcvi , 951 . $3.25 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 582...

...J. Kēhaulani Kauanui This essay focuses on the case study of Native Hawaiians and the backlash against sovereignty struggles by neoconservatives who appropriate civil rights rhetoric to claim “reverse racism” in order to dismiss indigenous national claims as exclusionary. For indigenous peoples...

...Joel Beinin Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious...

...Ian Hunter Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Ian Hunter Literary Theory in Civil Life For those already interested in heading away from the discussions of aesthetics and politics or literature and ideology that have preoccu­ pied thinking about the social uses of literature...

...Dominique Colas Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Dominique Colas Civil Society: From Utopia to Management, from Marxism to Anti-Marxism ^^uring the 1993 electoral campaigns in Poland, Bronislaw Geremek, a famous medi­ eval historian and former advisor to Lech Wal§sa, the leader...

...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...

...Joseph J. Mathews CIVIL WAR NEWS Joseph J. Mathews THE AMERICAN Civil War was the only conflict of the middle or late nineteenth century which approached the twentieth-cen­ tury concept of total war. In contrast, the struggles waged by the great powers in Europe were conducted on the principle...

...Howard Douglas Dozier Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Trade and Transportation Along the South Atlantic Seaboard Before the Civil War Howard Douglas Dozier University of Georeia In 1784 George Washington presided over a convention held at Annapolis in behalf of the people...

...Philip Alexander Bruce Copyright © 1915 by Duke University Press 1915 Plantation Memories of the Civil War Philip Alexander Bruce Author of "Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Fortunate are the persons who, in looking back upon the history of their own past, find no part...

...Walter L. Fleming Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 The Peace Movement in Alabama During the Civil War 1. Party Politics, 1861-1864 By Walter L. Fleming, Columbia University In 1857, Andrew B. Moore, a State Rights Democrat, was elected governor of Alabama without opposition...

...Henry Rudolph Dwire Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 The New York Times and the Attempt to Avert the Civil War By Henry Rudolph Dwire Early in 1861, when the bitter animosity between the North and the South was at its height and men of even ordinary pene­ tration had already...

...Walter L. Fleming, Ph. D. Copyright © 1904 by Duke University Press 1904 Industrial Development in Alabama During the Civil War By Walter L. Fleming, Ph. D., Assistant-Professor of History in the University of West Virginia Early in the war the blockade of the Southern ports became so...

...Clyde Olin Fisher Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Relief of Soldiers Families in North Caro­ lina During the Civil War* Clyde Olin Fisher Fellow in Political Economy and Finance in Cornell University Contributions for the relief of soldiers families in North Carolina...

...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos This auto-ethnographic essay revisits the story of the Beirut City Center Dome, also known as the “Egg,” a 1960s brutalist-modernist cinema abandoned to snipers during Lebanon’s civil war, which briefly became a stage for a direct action politics in the early days of Lebanon’s...

..., and national regulations, and how in turn the refugees assert their agency through resilience and resistance, individually and collectively. A G A I N S T the D A Y Arnab Roy Chowdhury Against Unjust Laws: Civil Society Activism for the Rights of the Stateless Rohingya Boat People in Bangladesh In Myanmar...

...Shaun Myers This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post–civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time , the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More...

...Tom Conley Tom Conley Civil War and French Better Homes & Gardens Many compendia and histories of the French garden focus on the jardin from the age of Louis XIV up to and through the ancien regime. To reflect on the French garden in such works is to recall the sculpted trees and walkways...