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...Ian Glenn Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Ian Glenn Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, and the Politics of Interpretation N adine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee have much in common. Both have condemned apartheid in memorable terms; both have analyzed censorship, promoted black writ­...

...Khazhismel Tkhagapsoev Duke University Press 2006 Khazhismel Tkhagapsoev On the Way to Mirage: Russian Metamorphoses of Liberalism and the Problem of Their Interpretation My argument in this essay is twofold. First I argue...

...William M. Ferraro Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 An Interpretation of Hawthorne and the American Character William M. Ferraro Nathaniel Hawthorne s view of man and the world is central to his concep­ tion of the American character. Hawthorne, though, was a complex person who...

... the significance of the frontier in the interpretation of American history, and emphasizing the contributions of the West to democracy and nationalism. He led Woodrow Wil­ son over to his essential views in 18931 and founded a school of disciples on his conception, The existence of an area of free land, its...

...Wallace E. Caldwell Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 THE AGE OF PERICLES: AN INTERPRETATION WALLACE E. CALDWELL University of North Carolina ISAY that Athens is the school of Hellas and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself...

...Carroll Van West; Mary S. Hoffschwelle Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 "Slumbering On Its Old Foundations : Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll Van West and Mary S. Hoffschwelle One of the most heralded museum openings of recent date was that of the refurnished...

...Elbridge Colby Copyright © 1913 by Duke University Press 1913 The New Economic Interpretation of Literary History. Elbridge Colby Proudfit Fellow in fetters, Columbia University. Now that the theory of the Economic Interpretation of His­ tory is well established, historians have begun...

...B. R. McElderry, Jr. The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels . By Poirier Richard . New York : Oxford University Press , 1960 . Pp. 260 . $6.50 . James’s Later Novels: An Interpretation . By Marks Robert . New York : The William-Frederick Press...

...William J. Barber Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 William J. Barber The Economics of Affluence A mid-nineteenth- and a mid-twentieth century interpretation I I know not why it should be a matter of congratulation that persons who are already richer than any one needs...

...Cushing Strout Recording America’s Past: An Interpretation of the Development of Historical Studies in America 1607-1884 . By Van Tassel David D. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1960 . Pp. xii , 223 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book...

...L. M. Thompson Ghana: A Historical Interpretation . By Fage J. D. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1959 . Pp. xiv , 122 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 489 All this is described with meticulous care and great skill by Mr. Flint...

...Allan Gilbert Heroic Knowledge, An Interpretation of Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes . By Stein Arnold . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1957 . Pp. xiv , 237 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 399 relation between...

...Harold T. Parker Charles Beard and the Constitution: A Critical Analysis of “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution” . By Brown Robert E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1954 . Pp. vi , 219 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 116...

...John Shelton Curtiss Russia: A History and An Interpretation . By Florinsky Michael T. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1953 . 2 vols. $15.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 BOOKS Russia: A History and An Interpretation. By Michael T. Florinsky. New York...

...Richard L. Watson, Jr. The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character since the 1880’s . By Commager Henry Steele . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1950 . Pp. xl , 476 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 580 The South Atlantic...

...Hans Baron Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 A SOCIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN FLORENCE* HANS BARON EACH GENERATION of historians owns a magic wand, whose touch opens the past more readily to them, than other methods of approach could do. The magic wand...

...E. E. Muntz Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 AN INTERPRETATION OF URBAN ETHNOCENTRISM E. E. MUNTZ NOTHING characterizes this great age of ours more than the urbanization process which everywhere is going on round about us. And in the midst of this change we are dimly conscious...

...William J. Baker Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Julius Charles Hare: A Victorian Interpreter of Luther William J. Baker Unable to read German and unsympathetic to a man vastly different from themselves, most Victorians had difficulty understanding Martin Luther...

...Susan F. Toman Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Don Salvador de Madariaga A Provocative Interpreter of Spanish America Susan F. Toman I do not write for any market whatsoever. For my Bolivar, I was hanged in effigy in Caracas; and for my political books I live in exile. 1 Thus...

... Happened to the Iroquois Clans? A Study of Clans in Three Nineteenth Century Rotinonhsyonni Communities . London, ON : University of Western Ontario . Druke Mary A. 1995 . “ Iroquois Treaties. Common Forms, Varying Interpretations .” In The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy , 85 – 90...