...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...

...Joseph C. Robert The Articulate Sisters: Passages From Journals And Letters Of The Daughters Of President Josiah Quincy Of Harvard University . Edited By Howe M. A. Dewolfe . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1946 . Pp. 249 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1947 by Duke...

...Ilya Budraitskis In his essay “The Weakest Link of Managed Democracy: How the Parliament Gave Birth to Nonparliamentary Politics,” Ilya Budraitskis reflects on the model of “managed democracy” in Russian political culture and on the specific place of the Russian Parliament. In December 2011, many...

... of Catastrophe, or How to Avert the Past and Regulate the Future ​A catastrophe is a disastrous interruption that overwhelms the supposedly normal course of existence. Like the collapse of a river’s bed or arti...

... and Britain and how those past colonial conflicts, and, in turn, the imposition of linguistic dominations, inform current difficulties around decolonization, nationhood, and Indigenous liberation. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 language colonization decolonization Indigenous...

... Atlantic Quarterly 119:4, October 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8663639 © 2020 Duke University Press Warren Montag How Does Critique Become Effective? To approach critique today as both a word and a concept, that is, to approach critique critically, as Marx ironically remarked in the Holy Family, is no easy...

...John A. Garraty Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 HOW TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY John A. Garraty THE WRITING of biography involves, as does no other form of nonfiction, a combination of science and art. Biography is a bridge between history and the novel, combining the historian s...

...John Carlisle Kilgo Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 How Does Religion Concern Education? By John Carlisle Kilgo, D. D President of Trinity College The Christian religion is a working religion. It rests upon a working God. The first revelation which the Bible makes of God...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 How a Young Man Built Up History in Mississippi In 1893 there came to the Johns Hopkins University from the State of Mississippi a young man who desired to study history. He was a modest, affable, and serious person and gave all his...

..., and the struggle and defense of the commons created situations that rendered visible, with the clarity that lightning offers in dark nights, the ethnic and social antagonisms that penetrate and fragment Bolivian society. This essay examines this visibility and how the growing collective rejection of the various...

...Grant Farred 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Grant Farred The Postcolonial Chickens Come Home to Roost: How Yardie Has Created a New Postcolonial Subaltern...

... of sovereignty and biopolitics. While democratic autonomy involves the institutionalization of radical democracy, radical democracy needs to be defended against attacks of capital, state, and patriarchy. The question of how such defense can be organized without reproducing the “magic” of the state and law...

...The Editor Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 How a Young Man Built Up History in Mississippi In 1893 there came to the Johns Hopkins University from the State of Mississippi a young man who desired to study history. He was a modest, affable, and serious person and gave all his...

...David Y. Thomas Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 HOW WASHINGTON DEALT WITH DISCONTENT DAVID Y. THOMAS WE DO not commonly think of Washington as an actor. In fact he did precious little acting, yet he played the leading role in one of the most dramatic incidents in American...

... existing syllabi and offer a degree through the latter's international program while offering what it claims will be a teaching system modeled on Oxbridge tutorials. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Priyamvada Gopal How...

... President of the Republic of China”) . Vol. 2 . Sun Zhongshan quanji (Collected Works of Sun Yat-sen) . Beijing : Zhonghua shuju . Wang Hui The Prophecy and Crisis of October: How to Think about Revolution after the Revolution ​If the nineteenth century...

...Renee Bracey Sherman A pivotal moment in the post– Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization response was how abortion storytellers rose up in defiance of the laws. Of course, people continued to have abortions, but the way in which they did so openly, refusing to be silent and testifying before...

...Henry Petroski Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 How Poetry Breeds Reactors Henry Petroski The technological superiority of the country that put men on the moon and brought them back is being threatened by more than foreign auto­ mobiles and television sets. France s nuclear...

...Paul W. Schroeder Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 Containment Nineteenth-Century Style: How Russia Was Restrained Paul W. Schroeder Inspector Gregory: Is there any other point to which-you would wish to draw my attention? Sherlock Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog...