...Harry R. Stevens Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 GROSS SECTION AND FRONTIER* Harry R. Stevens N ENGLISH HISTORIAN, H. Hale Bellot, wrote in 1952 that the most distinctive feature of American historiography in the generation after 1890 was the work of the Middle Western school...

...David M. Pletcher Louis Kossuth and Young America: A Study of Sectionalism and Foreign Policy, 1848-1852 . By Spencer Donald S. . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 1977 . Pp. xii , 203 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 126 The South Atlantic...

...Robert F. Durden 166 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the Slavery Extension Controversy. By Eugene H. Berwanger. Ur­ bana: University of Illinois Press, 1967. Pp. viii, 176. $5.95. Democratic Politics and Sectionalism: The Wilmot Proviso...

... such as personalized medicine, hinges upon locating individual idiosyncrasies within large populations. The essay's first two sections draw on Michel Foucault's account of the historical emergence of biopolitics to illuminate the metaphysical assumptions that underwrite the modern concept of population. The third...

... or “things” (via entrepreneurial innovation). This first section of this essay presents a reading of the figure of the “adventurous” entrepreneur via Richard Cantillon and Jean-Baptiste Say, a figure inserted into the broader context of a modernity frequently interpreted by commentators across the political...

...Rodrigo Karmy Bolton This article argues that martyrdom carries with it a destituent power. To this end, it examines the difference between martyrdom and sacrifice in five sections. The first four discuss sacrifice in French anthropology; Bataille's proposal of an “unemployed negativity...

...Hakan Sandal-Wilson Scattered across four countries in the Middle East, Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world and have long been portrayed as pawns within imperial interventions in the region, both by some sections of the Left as well as within authoritarian right-wing...

...Helen Groth In the first section of her Autobiography , Harriet Martineau recollects the first eight years of her life as a series of traumatic events in which illusion and reality merge. One event is prompted by an encounter with a domestic magic lantern. In its dismantled state, the lantern holds...

... section of the essay follows Michel Foucault's interpretation of the Iranian Revolution to read the cycle of struggles in 2011 as biopolitical struggles. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Michael Hardt Falsify the Currency! ​In his final lectures at the Collège de...

... in its outsourced factories. This essay also reflects on the theatrical activism and controversy surrounding Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” Finally, highlighting the arguments of the three contributions to this section, it shows how China’s new generation of workers...

...Alexei Penzin The article provides an introduction and context for this section of Against the Day, which analyzes the ongoing protests in Russia. The mainstream interpretations of Russian events create a stereotypical picture formed by liberal narratives as a struggle with an authoritarian regime...

... the artist Caroline Woolard's practice as a site to investigate the problem of artistic labor and aesthetic value in an entrepreneurial age. This essay is divided into two sections. The first offers a possible deduction of decommodification from the theoretical convergence of aesthetics and commodification...

... that both mark the technologically defined era of modernity and signal forms of actual or possible political response to its effects. The second section of the article offers a reading of two mass-cultural texts from the 1970s, the CBS sitcom Maude (1972–78) and the 1975 gothic horror film The Stepford...

... immediately so, and that its metric is cognizable in a critical understanding of the received idea of “real time.” Following an introduction titled “Undercount Nation,” the essay proceeds in six sections: (I) Studies in Prejudice, Primordial Restitution, Interpretation neither Stringent nor Arbitrary; (2...

... on the border of the constitutional order. In response, from the 1990s onward, classical state of emergency practices, which were ongoing for almost seventy years, evolved into antiterrorism policies as a technique of governmentality and politics of law. While it demolished the organized sections...

... years. The strategy and tactics of the movement are examined, and its rapid decline is explained. The final section outlines a number of challenges faced by contemporary debtors’ organizations like Strike Debt that emerge from the history of debt resistance and are illuminated by the story of El Barzón...

... briefly explores the political dynamics underlying these dramatic policy changes and emerging patterns of resistance and offers a brief orientation to this Against the Day section. References Bell Suzanne O. , Stuart Elizabeth A. , and Gemmell Alison . 2023 . “ Texas’ 2021 Ban...

... of this article to point out the important forces now working for the liberation of political opinion in this section, the logic of the problem demands some reference to the circumstances which led to the solidifying of political action here. The political solidarity of the South is a product of post-bellum...

... of treatments which purport to give always a purely political, social, or economic explanation to school con­ ditions and educational customs in the various sections; and it is just such treatments which are most often responsible for the various loose statements so often made concerning our educational history...

... Depart­ ment to the Confederate generals, to Jefferson Davis and his widow, for assistance in the collection of materials and the facts stated in connection therewith have probably no parallel in his­ torical literature. When it is remembered that the war lasted four years, that a large section...