...Ann Fabian Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Ann Fabian Gamblers in the Garden: The Political Consequences of the Fix The fall I was studying for orals, I lived next door to a man named Pete. That summer, Pete had divorced a wife, gotten rid of a hardware store, and like me...

... horizons no longer compute. Garden and place are old hat except as fashion accessories; habitat is just another lifestyle choice. There is no pathway to or from the Garden of Eden because it is over and out. Of course, we can step into a Holodeck garden and experience what all the fuss used to be about.5...

...Ruth Beilin Ruth Beilin Cultivating the Global Garden It is a windy day in the Strzelecki Ranges. On a walk with a group offarmers in the southwest Gippsland dairy country of Victoria, Australia, we have progressed along the new plantations and across the pastures to a lookout point atop...

...Donald G. Mathews The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830–1900 . By Friedman Jean E. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 180 , $19.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 407 Squier s...

...James L. Machor Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Urbanization and the Western Garden: Synthesizing City and Country in Antebellum America James L. Machor Although the belief in American distinctiveness had been developing since the age of settlement in the seventeenth century...

...C. Hugh Holman The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature . By Simpson Lewis P. . Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 16 . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1975 . Pp. xi , 109 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976...

...Aubrey W. Naylor Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town . By Berkeley Edmund Berkeley Dorothy Smith . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1969 . Pp. xv , 379 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Book Reviews 421 South in American...

...Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. Cod Gardened in the East, Avram Wandered West It s cool this morning, not unusually so, but it feels unusual given how hot it s been re­ cently. Passing over the expected, luxurious, and infinitely gentle transitions that normally char­ acterize...

...Tom Conley Tom Conley Civil War and French Better Homes & Gardens Many compendia and histories of the French garden focus on the jardin from the age of Louis XIV up to and through the ancien regime. To reflect on the French garden in such works is to recall the sculpted trees and walkways...

... of instantaneous conversions was raging within St. Philip s Parish, but the Rector of St. Philip s was Alexander Garden, the Bishop of London s Commissary for North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Bahamas, who intended to use his power among the clergy to destroy George Whitefield. In March, 1740, he warned...

...Susan Willis Susan Willis Looking at the Zoo Consider the zoo as a garden. This is not a difficult task for anyone who has visited the San Diego Zoo and can conjure up images of its abundant eucalyptus, bougainvillea, and bird-ofparadise. Indeed, the San Diego Zoo has long boasted that its...

... meaning in different parts of the narrative, selected somewhat arbitrarily, are the symbol of the garden, in­ terpreted semantically, and in associations of time, place, mood, and even produce (Rudolphe s gifts of fruit); the symbol of water, as it is associated here with rivers, pools, boats; the lathe...

... church, had written a letter in praise of the enthusiastic Anglican evangelist. The South Carolina Gazette published the letter, and Smith was quickly answered by Arminius, who was almost certainly Alex­ ander Garden, the rector of St. Philip s and the bishop of London s commissary in the Carolinas...

..., no herding, and no gardening. In line with the new international conventions on asserting sovereignty over territory, they thus assumed a terra nullius, or no-person s-land, and claimed New South Wales for the British sovereign.24 Indigenous Australians still have to endure the brutal fact of this pre­...

... of ‘‘this our exile’’ signifies the sum of the soul’s earthly being. All of one’s life is exile: the ‘‘inheritance’’ of the soul, her place ‘‘betweenthedesert in the garden [and] the garden in the desert her ‘‘time of tension between...

... Murfree, for example, is misspelled in the table of contents. But the guide is not only a remarkable scholarly achieve­ ment but an excellent piece of bookmaking as well. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA JOHN T. FLANAGAN Dr. Alexander Garden of Charles Town. By Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley...

... 864 Index to Volume g8 Contents of Volume 98 Bassi, Karen, Nostos, Domos, and the Architecture of the Ancient Stage 415 Bazin, Jean, Generalized Ethnography 23 Beilin, Ruth, Cultivating the Global Garden 761 Bethlehem, Louise Shabat, Strange Loops and Writes-of-Passage: Double-Crossing Diaspora...

... the trail twice, I came face to face with a street sign, Pope s Grove (this grove is mentioned in Serie s plan Pope's Grotto Today 291 of the garden in 1745). In the picture I took at that spot the grove is in the background, and the sidewalk in the foreground apparently curves around in front...

... and species. Few of these, however, are credited to him because he did not himself publish but left it to his noted correspondents to do so. The authors make this point clearly but without acerbity. In appreciation of Garden s contributions, numerous species of plants and animals were named after him...

... was particularly interested in the gorgeous iris that grew wild in Louisiana s marshes and bayous. Botanists once considered this region the greatest natural iris garden in the world. But the push of expanding cities was cutting down the open areas where iris flourish, and Captain Frank saw with sorrow...