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...Harold T. Parker Heaven, Hell, and History: A Survey of Man’s Faith in History from Antiquity to the Present . By Marcus John T. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1967 . Pp. xxv , 293 . $6.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 177 over by a third...

...Thomas G. Wiener A History of Russian Literature: Comprising a History of Russian Literature and Contemporary Russian Literature . By Mirsky D. S. . Edited and abridged by Whitfield Francis J. . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1949 . Pp. xi , 518 , xxiv . $5.00 . Copyright ©...

...Harold T. Parker What Is History? By Carr Edward Hallett . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1962 . Pp. 209 . $3.50 . Generalization in the Writing of History: A Report of the Committee on Historical Analysis of the Social Science Research Council . Ed. by Gottschalk Louis...

...Trevor Richard Reese The Southwest Pacific to 1900: A Modern History . By Grattan C. Hartley . ( The University of Michigan History of the Modern World .) Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1963 . Pp. xiv , 558 . $7.50 . The Southwest Pacific Since 1900: A Modern...

...David Harris Willson The Scot in History: A Study of the Interplay of Character and History . By Notestein Wallace . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1946 . Pp. xvii , 371 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 Book Reviews 425 The Scot in History...

...Harold T. Parker The Poetry of History: The Contribution of Literature and Literary Scholarship to the Writings of History since Voltaire . By Neff Emery . New York : Columbia University Press , 1947 . Pp. ix , 258 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948...

...Julia Hell Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Julia Hell History as Trauma, or, Turning to the Past Once Again: Germany 1949/1989 The blessings of Western consumer societies are ir­ rupting into our protected . . . little world. At first a few bashful ads in the newspapers...

...Michael Geyer Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Michael Geyer Germany, or, The Twentieth Century as History DeLillo was outrageous but quite to the point when, in White Noise, he had Jack Gladney teach Hitler Studies at a midwestem liberal arts college. German history hinges...

...Christian Jouhaud; Elizabeth A. Scognamillo Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Christian Jouhaud Richelieu s Workshop: From Archive to Manuscript, from the Production of Writings to the Writing of History ^Zardinal Richelieu, Louis Xlll s chief and all-powerful minister (from 1624...

...David Kellogg Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 David Kellogg Kinsella, Geography, History Thomas Kinsella s poems are grey, meticulous, and patiently documentary. They move in an urban field of entangled and confused buildings, a cityscape that has been razed and rebuilt many...

...Áine O’Brien Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Aine O Brien Marketing and Managing Colonial Spectacle as National History: In the Belly of the Archive Imagine you are a prisoner in this cell. Draw a picture of what you would see of the world outside. What does it mean to market...

...Jonathan Arac Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Jonathan Arac Hamlet, Little Dorrit, and the History of Character The most urgent agenda for contemporary literary theory involves all that it will take to forge a new literary history. From Fredric Jameson s slogan, always...

...Anne Mack; J. J. Rome Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Anne Mack and J. J. Rome Marxism, Romanticism, and Postmodernism: An American Case History [ I his past month we received the follow­ ing document: the report of a discussion between three professors identified...

... only by the addition of a coda making a claim for the unity of the essays in this volume, a claim no more compelling than is the parallel one in the book s introduction. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY JOHN B. GABEL Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter. Edited by Stephen Erich Bronner. New...

...George R. Uba Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Malady and Motive: Medical History and "The Fall of the House of Usher George R. Uba When the narrator of Poe s The Fall of the House of Usher first glimpses the Ushers manor and demesne, he suffers a marked depression, which he...

...John E. Semonche Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South . Edited by Bodenhamer David J. Ely James W. Jr. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 1984 . Pp. x , 270 . $20.00 (cloth); $8.95 (paper). Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book...

...Richard W. Leopold The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs: The History of the Council on Foreign Relations . By Schulzinger Robert D. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1984 . Pp. xiii , 342 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 95 To Theobald...

...Steven Weiland Life History, Psychoanalysis, and Social Science: The Example of John Bollard Steven Weiland No less than today s social scientists their forerunners complained about the isolation of the disciplines from one another, questioned the limits of methodological conventions, and feared...

...Kent Blaser What Happened to New Left History?: Part II, Methodological Dilemmas Kent Blaser This essay continues and completes an examination of certain facets of the recent history and contemporary situation of the historical profession, focusing on ideological implications imbedded...

... The History of Southern Literature. Edited by Louis D. Rubin et al. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. Pp. xiv, 626. $29.95. This is the third and unquestionably most important of the major editorial projects on Southern literature that Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has overseen and the Louisiana...