...Louis J. Budd Fast Talk & Flush Times: The Confidence Man as a Literary Convention . By Lenz William E. . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1985 . Pp. 237 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 207 the importance of its nominal...

...Carey G. Rickabaugh Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 A Perennial Issue: Some Considerations on a National Constitutional Convention Carey G. Rickabaugh Thirty-two states as of 1985 have passed state legislative resolutions pe­ titioning the United States Congress to call...

...Joseph F. Menez Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Case for the National Nominating Convention Joseph F. Menez Despite the anguish of political purists hardened by the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the nominating convention will survive its critics for the simple reason...

...James A. Kehl Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 The Delegate Convention: Agent of the Democratic Process James A. Kehl I When in doubt, punt is an important football cue; it is intended to bring at least temporary relief from a potentially dangerous sit­ uation. In the process...

... of adopting some plan for promoting southern and western manufacturers and mining operations. A host of minor matters claimed the remainder of the time of the convention. These further illustrate the methods by which the conventioneers hoped to achieve southern inde­ pendence within the Union. One dealt...

...Farrar Newberry Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 The Nashville Convention and Southern Sentiment of lS^O Farrar Newberry Acting: Professor of History in the University of Arkansas Exactly to convey the sentiment of a section or people at any time is well-nigh impossible...

...John D. Wolcott Copyright © 1909 by Duke University Press 1909 The Southern Educational Convention of 1863 By John D. Wolcott Acting Librarian of the U. S. Bureau of Education The first half of the year 1863, from the Union defeat at Freder­ icksburg up to the high-water mark of Confederate...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 RESOLVING THE POLITICAL CHAOS: A STUDY OF THE PRE-PRIMARY NOMINATING CONVENTION* CHARLES KASSEL I THE PROBLEMS of a democracy, when solved at all, are slowly solved. This inheres in the nature of popular govern­ ment. Now...

...William K. Boyd Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Antecedents of the North Carolina Convention of 183 S By William K. Boyd Professor of History in Trinity College During the seventy odd years from the entrance of North Caro­ lina into the Federal Union until secession...

...William K. Boyd Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 The Antecedents ot the North Carolina Convention of 183$. [continued.] By William K. Boyd, Professor of History in Trinity College. III. Representation and Sectionalism. In the preceding pages two features of the Constitution...

...J. A. Bryant, Jr. Shakespeare and Five Acts: Studies in a Dramatic Convention . By Snuggs Henry L. . New York : Vantage Press , 1960 . Pp. 144 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 103 Mr. Thorp begins with Edith Wharton and concludes...

...David Buckland; Olivia Gray; Lucy Wood This is not a conventional essay and climate change is not a conventional subject. The issue's editors asked David Buckland and colleagues to “discuss the intersection of art and climate change science and specifically the Cape Farewell project's approach...

... a number of key principles that set it apart from conventional state-centric frames of reference. This essay maps out the ten key principles in order to gain purchase on twenty-first-century biopolitical warfare. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S...

... indebted to the racialized conventions of a Western order of things. This essay considers how a poststructuralist approach to black politics might be conceptualized otherwise. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y Barnor Hesse Marked Unmarked: Black Politics...

... markets and financial work. Theoretically, we fashion a more social account by developing a notion of performativity that does away with the (now conventional) opposition between the objective structure of the market and the subjective agency of its participant. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012...

..., midway through the play, is actually an angel of death. Part Wilsonian mystical realism and part Suzan-Lori Parks history play, Hall domesticates a larger-than-life figure to recalibrate the movement he personifies. I argue here that the play calls forth the conventions of a history play in order...

....” Broadly speaking, one percenters view human nature and destiny (necessity and historical contingency) through an anthropological rather than a theological lens. As three perspectives on the same phenomenon, they are the dialectical other of theism and conventional forms of religion. In all three cases...

...Anneleen Kenis Taking inspiration from Walter Benjamin's “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” this article discusses how new climate movements try to break with the empty time of conventional climate discourses in order to politicize the “now.” Pointing at the catastrophe looming on the horizon...

... governance. Namely, offshore extraction extends and alters the conventions of territorial rule in maritime space, recasting state authority to fit the distinctive contours of deepwater petrocapital. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 oil extraction maritime West Africa Ghana governance space...

... first at what it would mean to incorporate risk into conventional measurements of value and then opens up alternative ways of thinking about the process of production, to recognize frontier developments in finance as integral to capital. Rather than treat finance simply as “unproductive,” the analysis...