...Wang Hui What does it mean to take revolution seriously in a postrevolutionary era? What relevance do twentieth-century revolutionary movements have for contemporary projects of liberation? This essay seeks to answer these questions by tracing the complex legacies and contributions of the Chinese...

... the masses are collectively engaged in action; it is the expression of action itself. In a more general sense, May ’68, the first global protest movement in postwar history, teaches us that revolutions (especially so-called color revolutions) are no simple textbook events: they are propelled by a specific...

...Frances Acomb The Spirit of Revolution in 1789. A Study of Public Opinion as Revealed in Political Songs and Other Popular Literature at the Beginning of the French Revolution . By Rogers Cornwell B. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1949 . Pp. 363 . $5.00. . Copyright ©...

...William E. Dodd, Ph.D. Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 North Carolina in the Revolution By Professor William E. Dodd, Ph. D. Whatever may be said of North Carolina s devotion to the cause of the Confederacy in 1860-65, and no people ever sacrificed more, (Prussia sent about...

...William E. Dodd, Ph.D. Copyright © 1902 by Duke University Press 1902 North Carolina in the Revolution By Professor William E. Dodd, Ph. D. Whatever may be said of North Carolina s devotion to the cause of the Confederacy in 1860-65, and no people ever sacrificed more, (Prussia sent about...

...Robert S. Smith Industrial Revolution in Mexico . By Mosk Sanford A. . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1950 . Pp. xii , 331 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 266 The South Atlantic Quarterly are wired networks...

...John Shelton Curtiss The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923 . Vol. I . By Carr Edward Hallett . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1951 . Pp. x , 430 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 146 The South Atlantic Quarterly actor in those troubled times...

...Harold T. Parker Pierre Vergniaud: Voice of the French Revolution . By Bowers Claude G. . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1950 . Pp. xiii , 535 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews I5I Feis, although he obviously agrees with it in the last...

...Robert H. Woody John Adams and the American Revolution . By Bowen Catherine Drinker . Boston : Atlantic-Little, Brown , 1950 . Pp. xvii , 699 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews 597 new viewpoints, offering to the specialist an important...

...Eric Cazdyn Duke University Press 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Eric Cazdyn Disaster, Crisis, Revolution ​Disaster is everywhere and touches everything...

...Zine Magubane 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Zine Magubane The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State It is perhaps a symptom of our postmodern times, wherein the ‘‘accelerative thrust...

...Zeinab Abul-Magd This essay attempts to deconstruct myths about the Egyptian revolution. It reveals that it is far from being a peaceful and Cairo-centered revolt made by globalized, middle-class youth. It argues that the US “empire” and its media apparatus have created such myths about Egypt’s...

... . 2012 . “ Two Approaches to Socialist Revolution: Marx versus Lenin-Trotsky; Russia 1917 .” Countdown . www.countdowninfo.net/uploads/6/7/3/6/6736569/chattopadhyay_marx_vs_lenin_countdown.doc . Cleaver Harry . 1979 . Reading “Capital” Politically . Austin : University of Texas Press...

...Sandrine Garcia; Eleanor Kaufman; Toril Moi Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Sandrine Garcia Project for a Symbolic Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Women s Movement in France In the following essay, Sandrine Garcia de­ fines herself as a woman working within the held...

...George Levine Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 George Levine Charles Darwin s Reluctant Revolution Reading against the grain, critics have been arguing repeatedly that writers whose work seems subversive of their culture s values actually incorporate those values into their very...

...Donald J. Raleigh Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Donald J. Raleigh Beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg: Some Reflections on the August Revolution, Provincial Russia, and Novostroika Rom its earliest days, the Soviet regime has demonstrated an unrivaled capacity among the major...

...Jack P. Greene Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 From the Perspective of Law: Context and Legitimacy in the Origins of the American Revolution A Review Essay by Jack P. Greene I The dramatic expansion of early American history over the past two dec­ ades has not produced...

...Nina Baym Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Nina Baym Mercy Otis Warren s Gendered Melodrama of Revolution ^\mong the many Massachusetts intellectu­ als who wrote to support the patriot cause before and during the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) was the only...

... be deleted, and the book would still remain a brilliant commentary on Italian life and a remarkable self-portrait. harry r. stevens. The War of the Revolution. By Christopher Ward. Edited by John Richard Alden. New York: Macmillan, 1952. 2 vols. Pp. xiv, 989. $15.00. These two clearly written volumes...

... the aesthetic moment. This revolution is treated with a wide range of reference Ruskin, Pater, Mallarme, Schopenhauer, T. E. Hulme, Rossetti, and Joyce. One may be startled by a sentence like The mo­ ment of arrested cognition achieves at once its stasis and epiphany as a result of the reconstruction...