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...Theodore Ropp The Great War for the Empire: The Culmination, 1760-1763 (The British Empire before the American Revolution, Volume VIII) . By Gipson Lawrence Henry . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1954 . Pp. xxxii , 313 , xlix . $7.50 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press...

...Moon-Ho Jung Although W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction has been recognized widely in recent decades as a seminal work in African American and US history, its radical critique of the US empire is rarely acknowledged. This essay explores the ways Du Bois carried out that wider critique. ©...

...John Milbank 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 John Milbank Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and Terror Concerning the immediate aftermath...

... Eduardo , 241 – 67 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Grandin Greg . 2021 . Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic . Rev. ed. New York : Picador . Gutiérrez Yáñez Nelson . 1997 . “ Perfil revolucionario .” Ruy Mario...

...Roger Shaw Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 SINEWS OF EMPIRE, 1943 ROGER SHAW WINSTON CHURCHILL is busy these days, but he never, no matter how rushed, forgets that he is a grade-A historian and student of the classics. Churchill knows his Imperium Romanum as well as his British...

...Theodore Ropp The Great War for the Empire: The Victorious Years, 1758-1760 ( The British Empire Before the American Revolution, Volume VII ). By Gipson Lawrence Henry . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1949 . Pp. xlviii , 467 , xxxvi . $7.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University...

...Theodore Ropp Night Work: The Story of Task Force 39 . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : Henry Holt and Co. , 1946 . Pp. 267 . $3.00 . Empire and the Sea . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : Henry Holt and Co. , 1946 . Pp. xv , 446 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke...

... the advantages of the method while avoiding its pitfalls and has created richer insights into the past and into the present without distortion of either. Harold T. Parker. The German People: Their History and Civilization from the Holy Roman Empire to the Third Reich. By Veit Valentin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf...

...Robert S. Smith Empire in Green and Gold: The Story of the American Banana Trade . By Wilson Charles Morrow . New York : Henry Holt And Company , 1947 . Pp. 303 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 597 careful to hedge themselves with ifs...

...Jack P. Greene The British Isles and the American Colonies: The Northern Plantations, 1748-1754. Volume III of The British Empire before the American Revolution . By Gipson Lawrence Henry . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1960 . Pp. xlviii , 294 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke...

...Charles R. Young Constantinople: Birth of an Empire . By Lamb Harold . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1957 . Pp. x , 334 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 273 Constantinople: Birth of an Empire. By Harold Lamb. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957...

...Alan K. Manchester Empire in Brazil: A New World Experiment with Monarchy . By Haring C. H. . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1958 . Pp. 182 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 Book Reviews 145 Empire in Brazil: A New World Experiment...

...Fred D. Schneider Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Britain s Legacy of Empire Fred D. Schneider The word empire describes both a form of political authority and the area over which the authority is exercised. Originally, it meant the autocratic rule of a single person; later...

...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...

...Robert H. Ferrell Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America’s Present Predicament along with a Few Thoughts about an Alternative . By Williams William Appleman . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. 229 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke...

...Alan K. Manchester Shipwreck and Empire. Being an account of Portuguese maritime disasters in a century of decline . By Duffy James . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1955 . Pp. vii , 198 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews Shipwreck...

...Theodore Ropp Diary of a Dying Empire . By Hanssen Hans Peter . Translated by Winther Oscar Osburn . Edited by Lutz Ralph H. Schofield Mary Winther O. O. . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1955 . Pp. liii , 409 . $6.75 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke...

...W. B. Hamilton The British Overseas: Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers. Part I: Making of the Empire . By Carrington C. E. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1968 . Pp. xi , 542 . Cloth, $10.50 ; paper, $2.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 714...

... Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Fall of the Fulani Empire After a decade of political preparation the short-lived British Em­ pire in Nigeria came to an end, amid fanfares and in the presence of royalty, on October 1, 1960. Even the elaborate celebrations attendant...

...Stephen John Hartnett; Laura Ann Stengrim 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim War Rhetorics: The National Security Strategy of the United States and President Bush’s Globalization-through-Benevolent-Empire In his...