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...Benjamin Noys Instead of crisis as a punctual event the contemporary experience is one of overlapping forms and modes of crisis resulting in a complex rhythm. While attempting to respond to this situation contemporary theory has often struggled to focus on the present moment of crisis. Instead...

...Nicholas Mirzoeff The climate crisis is intimately related to the debt crisis. First, developed nations owe a climate debt to developing nations, meaning extra space under the emissions limits to develop the former’s economies. Second, the need to restrict emissions means that growth-based...

...Mark Dery Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Mark Dery Signposts on the Road to Nowhere: Laurie Anderson s Crisis of Meaning The world is disappearing. Oliver Wendell Holmes augured this surreal state of affairs in The Stereoscope and the Stereograph, his 1859 essay on what...

...Kevin Pierce Thornton Symbolism at Ole Miss and the Crisis of Southern Identity Kevin Pierce Thornton In the fall of 1982, twenty years after the rioting that made the school famous, the University of Mississippi once again was the subject of national attention. This time there was no violence...

...Richard S. Kirkendall Harry Truman and the Crisis Presidency . By Cochran Bert . New York : Funk and Wagnalls , 1973 . Pp. viii , 432 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 274 The South Atlantic Quarterly Delany amendment of 1958, by which manufacturers...

...George A. McLean Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Mississippi: The Crisis in Review George A. McLean It is a melancholy experience to this native Mississippian to read some of the current spate of books dealing with some of the saddest moments in the history of his state. Walter...

...Louis W. Hodges Southern Churches in Crisis . By Hill Samuel S. Jr. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1966 . Pp. xvii , 234 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 193 how the South lived in expectancy of change without actually experi­...

...William G. Andrews Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 France 1968: Crisis Election and Long-Term Trends William G. Andrews The Crisis of May 1968 Never in the history of France did elections take place in more extraordinary conditions than in 1968. Crisis overlay crisis. Near­...

...Isadore Traschen Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 The Form of the Literature of Crisis Isadore Traschen I When the economic, political, social, and religious structures of a culture weaken, the values which reflect them weaken too. New values emerge. Not all the old ones...

...Olin D. Wannamaker Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 The Crisis of Missions in China. By Olin D. Wannamaker, Acting Professor of English in the University of Arkansas. The Orient is in a ferment of new ideas. In one generation Ja­ pan has stepped out ofmedisevialism to the front...

...Martin Crawford Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Anglo-American Crisis of the Early 1860 s: A Framework for Revision Martin Crawford The secession of the slave states in the winter of 1860-61 precipitated a devastating collapse in Anglo-American understanding. On several...

...Eugene Brennan This special issue demonstrates how theorizing the present in terms of crisis generates insights into contradictory experiences of historical time. The core questions addressed are these: What are the temporal forms through which crisis is expressed today, and what are the political...

..., and then continues with an attempt to update such an approach, applying it to the current situation. In this regard, it highlights the fact that the post-2008 crisis scenario has been further accentuated the strategic function of institutional devices aimed at balancing the mismatches that characterize the logics...

...Deborah Cowen This article diagnoses the catastrophe of the present as crisis in motion. Looking to the sphere of circulation as site and source of a multitude of crises in contemporary life, it explores the emergence of crisis not simply in the disruption of movement but in the production...

...W. T. Laprade The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution . By Morgan Edmund S. Morgan Helen M. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press (Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture) , 1953 . Pp. x , 310 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke...

...Robert G. Gregory Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Robert G. Gregory Crisis for the British Empire The East African Challenge to the Durham Tradition Lord Salisbury stated British policy in a debate on African colo­ nies in 1947: Of course, we all want to lead on the Colonies...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of Crisis, 1928-1938 . By Blum John Morton . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1959 . Pp. xxiv , 583 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 440 The South Atlantic Quarterly the history of thought...

...Harry R. Stevens Crisis in Freedom: The Alien and Sedition Acts . By Miller John C. . Boston : Little, Brown , 1951 . Pp. 253 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 328 The South Atlantic Quarterly a half century of dynamic American history, is yet...

...E. Malcolm Carroll Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE WORLD CRISIS, 1937-1940* E. Malcolm Carroll THE major events of our times, especially those of the years between the two World Wars, have been influenced by the writings of historians more than...