...Peter Brooks In France, debate on the death penalty runs from the French Revolution until abolition in 1981. One of the more remarkable contributions to the debate is the novel by Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d'un condamné [ The Last Day of a Man Sentenced to Death ], first published in 1829...

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... 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...

... “I​ did not lose my baby . . . My baby just died”: Twenty-­First-­Century Discourses of Miscarriage in Political and Historical Context ​Recent estimonies t from women who have miscarried call on the discursive force...

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... HILL JOHN E. SEMONCHE Love of Order: South Carolina s First Secession Crisis. By John Barnwell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. x, 258. $25.00. Love of order, the quest for an ordered, stable political, economic, and social system, was a principal thread in early nineteenth...

... or ignorance of the settler-colonial state and its project of Judaization of the Galilee and the rest of Palestine. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Ilan Pappe Indigeneity as Cultural Resistance: Notes on the Palestinian Struggle within Twenty-First-Century Israel...

...Louis-Ferdinand Céline; Henri Godard; Alice Kaplan; Philippe Roussin Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Louis-Ferdinand Celine A First Sketch of Feerie pour une autre fois (from the Prison Notebooks) Introduced by Henri Godard The second half of Celine s oeuvre the novels written...

... frustrating. LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY WILLIAM J. COOPER, JR. Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984. Pp. xiv, 551. $39-50. In import as well as physical size, V. A. Kolve s book makes a major contri­ bution...

...Fred Chappell Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 First Night Once More Fred Chappell The graduate fiction-writing class, English 525, is listed in the proper schedule as meeting in McIver Building, Room 215, at two o clock on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But it actually meets at seven...

...Charles DeBenedetti Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The First Detente: America and Locarno Charles DeBenedetti Almost fifty years before Henry Kissinger feigned a stomachache in Pakistan, slipped into Peking, and dazzled the world with the vi­ brancy of a new detente...

...Eddy Dow Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Lewis Mumford s Passage to India: From the First to the Later Phase Eddy Dow In 1975 Lewis Mumford marked his eightieth birthday by publishing his twenty-seventh book. As remarkable as it is that a contemporary writer with Mumford s...

...Francis E. Skipp Hemingway’s First War: The Making of A Farewell to Arms . By Reynolds Michael S. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1976 . Pp. lx , 309 . $13.50 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Book Reviews 385 that warrant still further exploration...

...Bernard Duffey Harriet Monroe and the Poetry Renaissance: The First Ten Years оf Poetry, 1912-1922 . By Williams Ellen . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1977 . $10.95 . Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Book Reviews 255 middle-class college youth Fass...

...George E. Hastings Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 JACOB DUCHE, FIRST CHAPLAIN OF CONGRESS GEORGE E. HASTINGS FEW Americans are so ignorant of the history of their country as not to have been told by some of their teachers in the public schools that the first meeting...

...Florie Hutson Heyward Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 AMERICA S FIRST STEAM RAILROAD FLORIE HUTSON HEYWARD TTLEW ON the wings of the wind at the speed of fifteen J? to twenty-five miles per hour, annihilating time and space . . . darting like a live rocket scattering sparks...

...Dumas Malone Copyright © 1923 by Duke University Press 1923 The First Years of Thomas Cooper in America, 1794-1801* Dumas Malone Yale University Contemporary American opinion was by no means unani­ mous as to the merits of Thomas Cooper. Many staunch Fed­ eralists came in due time to express...

...Earl L. Bradsher Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The First American Edition of the Lyrical Ballads Earl L. Bradsher The University of Texas For over three-quarters of a century, or ever since the popu­ larity of Wordsworth and of Coleridge as poets has been estab­ lished...

...Theodore Ropp The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain 1917-1918 and the Birth of the Royal Air Force . By Fredette Major Raymond H. , U.S.A.F. Foreword by Baldwin Hanson W. . Afterword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Slessor John . New York : Holt, Rinehart...

...Harry M. Ward 184 The South Atlantic Quarterly gives so full an account of the Swift manuscripts in the Huntington Li­ brary: their contents, their significance, and their provenance. QUEEN S COLLEGE, CUNY MIRIAM K. STARKMAN Robert Munford: America s First Comic Dramatist. By Rodney M. Baine...