... 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...

...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...

...Ian Hunter 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 for the last three decades, an alternative field...

...Kathleen C. Berkeley A Woman Doctor’s Civil War: Esther Hill Hawks’ Diary . Edited with a foreword and afterword by Schwartz Gerald . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 1984 . Pp. ix , 301 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 317 tory...

...Dominique Colas 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 of Solidarnosc and now president of Poland...

...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 Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 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...

...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...

...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...

...John B. Kirby New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction . By Powell Lawrence N. , New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1980 . Pp. xiv , 253 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 235 of the intellectual...

...Gary C. Ness Southern Governors and Civil Rights: Racial Segregation as a Campaign Issue in the Second Reconstruction . By Black Earl . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1976 . Pp. vii , 408 . $16.50 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 388 The South Atlantic...

...Calvin D. Davis Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 A British Diplomat and the American Civil War: Edward Malet in the United States Calvin D. Davis On Saturday, November 8, 1862, the Cunard steamer Scotia docked in New York. The ship had sailed from Liverpool on October 25...

...R. Taylor Cole Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Universities and Federalism in Post Civil War Nigeria R. Taylor Cole I Independent Nigeria came into being on October 1, 1960, and the decade following this date has been marked by change and adaptation, and an unprecedented number...

...Robert F. Durden The Children of Pride: A True Story of Georgia and the Civil War . Edited by Myers Robert Manson . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1972 . Pp. xxv , 1845 . $19.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 162 The South Atlantic Quarterly than...

...Elizabeth Studley Nathans Disrupted Decades: The Civil War and Reconstruction Years. By Jones Robert H. . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1973 . Pp. xiv , 542 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 278 The South Atlantic Quarterly of some six years...

...William G. Carleton Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Civil War Dissidence in the North: The Perspective of a Century William G. Carleton I At first sight it seems paradoxical that during our Civil War the Union, which was the repository of traditional American national­ ism...