...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...

...Robert H. Woody Seat of Empire: The Political Role of Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg . By Bridenbaugh Carl . Williamsburg : Colonial Williamsburg , 1950 . Pp. ix , 85 . $1.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 345 own hands to become the kingmakers...

...Harry W. Porter Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 CHURCHILL AND THE EMPIRE Harry W. Porter WINSTON CHURCHILL arose in the House of Commons one day in June, 1947, to announce that his party would offer no opposition to the granting of dominion status to India. He was silencing his...

...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...

...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...

...Carl F. Brand Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarter BRITAIN S SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF EMPIRE Carl F. Brand IMPERIALISM today is not in very good repute. To many the very word savors mainly of force, tyranny, and exploitation. Suspi­ cion of British...

...Lodwick Hartley Blake: Prophet against Empire . By Erdman David V. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1954 . Pp. 503 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 147 God s Country and Mine : A Declaration of Love Spiced with a Few Harsh Words...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Star of Empire: A Study of Britain as a World Power, 1485–1945 . By Willcox William B. . New York : Alfred Knopf , 1950 . Pp. 399 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 135 is an unfortunate neglect of the central figure...

...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...

...Andreas Dorpalen The German People: Their History and Civilization from the Holy Roman Empire to the Third Reich . By Valentin Veit . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1946 . Pp. 730 , xxxi . $6.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 282 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...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...

...Roger Shaw 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 Empire and his Statute of Westminster. Well he...

...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...

...Harold T. Parker The Empire and the Glory: Napoleon Bonaparte: 1800-1806 . By Pratt Fletcher . New York : William Sloane Associates, Inc. , 1949 . Pp. xvi , 535 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 496 The South Atlantic Quarterly analyze this paradox...

...Theodore Ropp Novels of Empire . By Howe Susanne . New York : Columbia University Press , 1949 . Pp. viii , 186 . $2.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 120 The South Atlantic Quarterly Arthurian Tradition and Chretien de Troyes. By Roger Sher­ man Loomis...

...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...