...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...

...Avinoam Shalem From a sociocultural point of view, the term modern and its implications have formed, shaped, and even dictated the collective identity of the twentieth century. Therefore, questions relating to the birth of this term, its assessment, its manipulative methods, and especially its...

...Ian Hunter It is sometimes presumed that early modern religious conflict can be understood (and judged) on the basis of philosophical principles of religious freedom that display the irrationality of such conflict. Some derive these principles from Lockean and Kantian doctrines purporting to show...

...Andrew McNamara 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Andrew McNamara Apprehension? Performativity and Medium-Specificity in Modern Art For all the talk about feeling, pleasure, and beauty, the aesthetic remains at its root a propo...

...Brett de Bary Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Brett de Bary Karatani Kojin s Origins ofModern Japanese Literature The brief afterword to Karatani Kojin s Ori­ gins of Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon kindai bungaku no kigen, 1980) contains sev­ eral disclaimers. This book...

...David Lee Miller David Lee Miller The Death of the Modern: Gender and Desire in Marlowe s Hero and Leander . . . simulations are undertaken in full awareness of the absence of the life they contrive to repre­ sent, and hence they may skillfully anticipate and compensate for the vanishing...

...Charles Reagan Wilson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 The Death of Bear Bryant: Myth and Ritual in the Modern South Charles Reagan Wilson Legend has it that Paul Bear Bryant knew he would die if he quit coaching. No folklore has suggested that he predicted the immense scope...

...Alex Roland Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience . By Kolko Gabriel . New York : Pantheon Books , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 558 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 205 to Laurens from the back country in August...

...Jefferson Humphries Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Shards from the Wreckage of History: Antimaxims in Modern Poetry Jefferson Humphries Aphorism never held an important place in American letters until re­ cently, and due to a particular historical consciousness. Or rather...

...Dwight David Allman Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Dwight David Allman Ancient Friends, Modern Enemies Friends, there are no friends, thus said the dying sage; Foes, there is no foe! say I, the living fool. Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human "The trial...

...Immanuel Wallerstein Immanuel Wallerstein The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System 26 August 1789, the French National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.1 It has re­...

...Greil Marcus Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Greil Marcus A Corpse in Your Mouth: Adventures of a Metaphor, or Modern Cannibalism People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to every­ day life, without understanding what is sub­ versive...

...Peter Augustine Lawler Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern Peter Augustine Lawler The United States was the first regime to be founded consciously on ra­ tional principles. Perhaps the most important of these modern prin­ ciples...

...Deborah Pope Lives of the Modern Poets . By Pritchard William H. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1980 . Pp. xii , 316 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 489 amusing to know that in 1918 Pound called Wagner a megatherium. Nor did he...

...Robert M. Torrance The Comedy of Language: Studies in Modern Comic Literature . By Robinson Fred Miller . Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press , 1980 . Pp. x , 189 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 479 was writing. He states...

...Prasenjit Duara 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Prasenjit Duara Local Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of the Native Place in Modern China The modern preoccupation with the hometown or native place (guxiang, xiangtu in Chinese...

... can only be an introduction to a much wider discussion of modern African political philosophy. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò “The love of freedom brought us here”: An Introduction to Modern African Political Philosophy The quote in the title...

...Gary T. Davenport Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Sean O Faolain s Troubles: Revolution and Provincialism in Modern Ireland Gary T. Davenport Yeats s famous assessment of the Easter Rising of 1916 All changed, changed utterly; / A terrible beauty is born 1 has proved...

...Gerald L. Marriner Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A Victorian in the Modern World: The Liberated Male s Adjustment to the New Woman and the New Morality Gerald L. Marriner I have sometimes doubted whether many of the men who spoke and worked for the equality of women really...

...C. Hugh Holman A Requiem for the Renascence: The State of Fiction in the Modern South . By Sullivan Walter . Mercer University Lamar Lectures, No. 18 . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1976 . Pp. xxiv , 81 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977...