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...Larry S. Champion Possessed with Greatness: The Heroic Tragedies of Shakespeare and Chapman . By Ide Richard S. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1980 . Pp. xvi , 253 . $16.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 373 ers...

...Katrina Schlunke Does “possession” produce “home”? This essay figures the claim by Captain Cook to possess Australia as an attempt to institute a single order of time and nature. But that order was and is always undercut by the reality of an enduring indigenous sovereignty. Through ideas of memory...

...Kai M. Green While many believe in and reproduce the narrative of the great black hope, and mourn the losses of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as the fallen kings who possessed the vision for a new black world, there have always been those who have challenged this. In Charisma...

... connections and in which the possessive, jurisdictional borders of private property can be reimagined as zones of compassionate engagement. This kind of futures-creation is not only in the interest of Indigenous people. Indigenous resistance against industrial projects that destroy or pollute our territories...

... Republic between different elements of the national bourgeoisie. Biology was critical to this struggle because it offered conceptual resources that the largely liberal terms of French academic philosophy did not possess for conceptualizing the differentiation and interdependence of social elements...

... for understanding, as well as difficult battles over the event’s meanings. My point of departure for analyzing March 8 is to take the struggle as an interpretative key, as one event within the overflowing of the current feminist struggle composed of multiple voices that possess common meanings, which we can observe...

... this is the possession of land. In thinking about the end of capitalism it is thus useful to return to the question of its origin as the second agricultural revolution in human history. If capitalism finds its roots in an agrarian transition, we might also locate its supersession at this level—in a third agricultural...

... of possible thought and action. The central thesis in this work is that the Inuit, occupying a vantage point defined by their Indigeneity (marked by the power they possess to build and maintain their own worlds of meaning through and about themselves, and their relationship to the world around), can advance...

... or friendship of wisdom) is also an ob­ ject of our desire. We love wisdom, that is, we desire it, because we do not possess it. What we love is perfection, and we, the lovers, are not perfect which is why we desire perfection. The strong eroticization ofphilia can bear wit­ ness to a tragic life experience...

...Walter J. Matherly Copyright © 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 THE CHANGING RIGHTS OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN WALTER J. MATHERLY HE RIGHTS which the American citizen possesses today are I entirely different in character from those which he possessed yesterday. The United States of 1939...

... terms is undoubtedly property. In an important decision the New York Court of Appeals held that the framers of our Constitution must be supposed to have used the word in its ordinary and popular signification, as representing something that can be owned and What is Property? 3 possessed and taken from...

... of 10,931,970, the latter 14,94-1,636, making a total of 25,873,606 people. The South Atlantic group possesses 55 volumes to each 100 inhabitants, or about one volume for every two people. The South Centralgroup possesses 17 volumes to each 100 inhabitants, or one volume for every six people. The State...

... thousand miles of railroad were constructed by the Southern States, while the New England and MiddleStates built less than five thousand miles. The year 1860 saw the South possessed of thirty per cent, of the banking capital and forty per cent, of all the real and personal property of the United States...

..., tools, trinkets. But their general atti­ tude is one of continual and unself-conscious regard for the welfare of the group. Along with this strong social sense, they possess a strong sense of the rights of the person. They are solicitous of one another s inner privacy. (Their circumstances practically...

... in the cane brake near home looking for some cattle and chanced upon a pile of blankets lying on the ground. On investigation, he also found a copy of the Mississippi Digest and a tin box of type. In this box was the very form from which the pass had been printed that was in the possession of the Negro...

... by the credulous. (One improbability was that President Davis would en­ trust such a precious national possession to his colored coachman in preference to any of his numerous trusted friends of proven dis­ cretion. Similarly the fact was ignored that President Davis was not the custodian of the seal which...

... actually possesses limited goals: (a) to illustrate how post-1500 international jurisprudence led to the ‘‘brack- The Coming Nomos 207 eting’’ of international war, meaning that world war was rendered almost impossible; the bracket or limit is dubbed...

... structural elements about which his appeal took shape. Two things are to be observed about the total significance of the concepts, nature, providence, and will. First, they possess a dramatic unity; that is, all three achieve realization through one figure, Andrew Jackson. Second, they possess a logical...

... contem­ poraries, but they do provide the main structural elements about which his appeal took shape. Two things are to be observed about the total significance of the concepts, nature, providence, and will. First, they possess a dramatic unity; that is, all three achieve realization through one figure...

..., and possessed of a future. Mark Twain s The Innocents Abroad, Lewis Leary writes, takes a fresh look at the transatlantic world and . . . discovers faults on both sides ; his vision extends beyond locality to qualities which men universally, sometimes shamefully, share. For Thomas Wolfe, both the local...