...Robert F. Durden The War for the Union: The Organized War, 1863-1864 , and The War for the Union: The Organized War to Victory, 1864-1865 . Volumes VII and VIII in The Ordeal of the Union . By Nevins Allan . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1971 . Pp. 532 and 448 . $15.00...

... discuss the theoretical and methodological stakes involved in analyzing the Bolivian Federal War of 1899 and detail existing historiographic debate. Then I explore the geographic and historical coordinates of the Indian community insurgency, leadership, and political representation, as well...

...Richard N. Current Civil War in the Making, 1815-1960 . By Craven Avery O. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1959 . 115 pp. $3.00 . The American Tragedy: The Civil War in Retrospect . By Craven Avery O. Vandiver Frank E. . With an introduction...

...Theodore Ropp Sea War: The Story of the U. S. Merchant Marine in World War II . By Reisenberg Felix Jr . New York : Rinehart and Company, Inc. , 1956 . Pp. 320 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 413 Kentucke, published in 1784. The book...

... of action he de­ lights in the smoke and flame of battle, the daringly conceived and executed attack, the stubborn defense, and the hounds-and-hare chase. Some of this is very well done. The story of the Confederate mas­ queraders seizure of the St. Nicholas is the romantic frippery of the war reduced...

...Robert W. Winston, Esquire Copyright © 1907 by Duke University Press 1907 The Passenger Rate War in North Carolina By Robert W. Winston, Esquire Of Durham. N. C. By an Act of the General Assembly of North Carolina, passed during the present year, severe penalties are prescribed for rail­...

...Theodore Ropp The Story of the Mexican War . By Henry Robert Selph . Indianapolis : The Bobbs-Merrill Company , 1950 . Pp. 424 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 142 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Story of the Mexican War. By Robert Selph Henry. India­...

...Theodore Ropp The U. S. Marines and Amphibious War: Its Theory, and Practice in the Pacific . By Isely Jeter A. Crowl Philip A. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1951 . Pp. vii , 636 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 602 The South Atlantic...

...Joseph J. Mathews Germany and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 . Vol. III , Series D, Department of State, Documents on German Foreign Policy, 1937-1945 . Washington : Government Printing Office . 1950 . Pp. xcvi , 951 . $3.25 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 582...

...Theodore Ropp The Combined Boards of the Second World War: An Experiment in International Administration . By Rosen S. McKee . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Pp. 288 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 332 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Robert H. Connery Impact of War on Federal Personnel Administration, 1939-1945 . By Kammerer Gladys M. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1951 . Pp. viii , 363 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews *55 Impact of War on Federal...

... Salinas 2011 Carlos Salinas Colonization and Resistance: Oil, War, and the Ongoing Attempt to Destroy the Kofan People of Colombia Those who paid for the crimes sit today in the parliament, register their weddings...

... , ed. James Der Derian. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998 . John Carlos Rowe Mao II and the War on Terrorism Oh! the only part of life that matters is contempla...

...Janell Watson 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Janell Watson Oil Wars, or Extrastate Conflict ‘‘beyond the Line Schmitt’s Nomos, Deleuze’s War Machine, and the New Order of the Earth There are at least three ways to read the U.S.-Iraq...

...Teresa M. Vilarós 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Teresa M. Vilarós A Big Idea: The Cold War, Ultracolonialism, and the Estado Dirigido Tienen su período los Imperios. El que más duró, más cerca está de su fin...

...Stephen John Hartnett; Laura Ann Stengrim 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Stephen John Hartnett and Laura Ann Stengrim War Rhetorics: The National Security Strategy of the United States and President Bush’s Globalization-through-Benevolent-Empire In his...

...Tony Payan Duke University Press 2006 Tony Payan The Drug War and the U.S.-Mexico Border: The State of Affairs The U.S.-Mexico border has long been the set- ting for America’s longest war: the drug war. The first...

...Brad Evans Countering the familiar peace narrative, it became increasingly common during the 1990s to question liberal war-making efforts. This led to the resurgence in “just war” theory, as the desire to save strangers became an increasingly violent pursuit. Although it has since been argued...

...Mark Duffield Total war is usually understood as the blurring of erstwhile political distinctions among people, armies, and government. It is more than this, however. Total war is a modus operandi involving the destruction—from the cellular to the planetary—of an enemy's environmental lifeworld...

...Julian Reid How we understand the nature of the subject of war has fundamental implications for how we understand the subject of the struggle against war. The subject of liberal war does not fight simply in order to destroy another subject but to produce subjects who will in turn reproduce...