...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...

...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 Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 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...

...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...

...Immanuel Wallerstein Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 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 desired it, wrote Frederic Howe in his...

... not so much in a failure of literary talent or in changes in social or political conditions as in a collapse of religious 130 South Atlantic Quarterly seriousness in what, following Eric Voegelin, he calls the gnosti­ cism of the modern world that is, its overweening, false belief that man is capable...

...Frederick B. Artz Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 How Did the Modern World Begin? Frederick B. Artz At the opening of this century before the First World War the view commonly held of how the modern world began was simple and largely unquestioned. It began in the fourteenth...

...Harold T. Parker Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Reflections on Thucydides and Some Aspects of Modern Coalition War Harold T. Parker It was fateful (not fatal, O discriminating reader) that history-writing in Western culture was derived from Homer. Homer introduced histo­ rians...

...W. David Shaw The Mysteries of Identity: A Theme in Modern Literature . By Langbaum Robert . New York : Oxford University Press , 1977 . Pp. x , 383 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 128 The South Atlantic Quarterly Poirier s virtue here is the virtue...

...David E. Shi Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 The Politicos: A Modern Look at a Muckraking Classic David E. Shi Historical stereotypes, like old soldiers, never die; many do not even fade away. This has certainly been the case with the popular stereotype of Gilded Age politics...

...Lionel Stevenson The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature . By Langbaum Robert . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Pp. xi , 221 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 132 The South Atlantic...