...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...

...Samuel Weber 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Samuel Weber War, Terrorism, and Spectacle: On Towers and Caves War and terrorism have traditionally been asso- ciated with one another, but to link them both...

...Rowan Williams 2002 by Rowan Williams 2002 Rowan Williams End of War o much of this seems to oblige us to think S 1...

...Michael J. Baxter 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Michael J. Baxter Dispelling the ‘‘We’’ Fallacy from the Body of Christ: The Task of Catholics in a Time of War...

... , 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...

... that postapartheid has been unable to overcome. The antiapartheid generation now in political power in South Africa came of age on Cold War–era formulations of revolutionary time in which the future was parsed in stages toward socialism. In particular, a Marxist-Leninist analysis was formulated for South Africa...

...Charles B. Murphy SAMUEL J. TILDEN AND THE CIVIL WAR CHARLES B. MURPHY FEW people think of Samuel J. Tilden as a prophet. When he is thought of at all, it is usually in connection with the contested election of 1876. There is, however, a less known period of his life which is far more significant...

...Richard H. Shryock Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 THE NATIONALISTIC TRADITION OF THE CIVIL WAR: A SOUTHERN ANALYSIS RICHARD H. SHRYOCK WE HAVE become almost smug about this greatest of American tragedies. It was, to be sure, a war of death and destruction; but also...

...David Y. Thomas Copyright © 1931 by Duke University Press 1931 RENOUNCING WAR AND ESTABLISHING PEACE DAVID Y. THOMAS ON JULY 4, 1776, thirteen English-American colonies declared their independence, but it took seven years of fighting to establish for themselves a place among the nations...

...Kelly Miller Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 HAVE THE CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS FAILED? KELLY MILLER Howard University THE failure of the Civil War Amendments is assumed by every school of thought and shade of political opinion. The South boasts that it was necessary to frustrate...

...G. Harrison Orians Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 WALTER SCOTT, MARK TWAIN, AND THE CIVIL WAR G. HARRISON ORIANS THERE IS A curious charge made by Mark Twain that Walter Scott was the sustainer of maudlin Middle-Age romanticism . . . in the midst of the plainest and sturdiest...

...Louis Pendleton Copyright © 1937 by Duke University Press 1937 THE PASSIONS OF WAR LOUIS PENDLETON DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON is celebrated not only for his pioneer dictionary but also for his wit and wisdom so volumi­ nously recorded by Boswell, his faithful biographer. But no astute reader...

...Josiah Moffatt POST-WAR DIVERSIONS OF THE RURAL SOUTH JOSIAH MOFFATT THERE WAS great rejoicing among the Negroes on the planta­ tions when a seasonable cold snap just before Christmas was immediately utilized for the slaughter of the fat porkers that had been penned up and corn-fed all fall...

...Robert S. Newdick ROBERT FROST LOOKS AT WAR ROBERT S. NEWDICK RECENTLY A VIGOROUS contemporary critic and thorough­ going champion of Robert Frost, Bernard De Voto, noted with satisfaction that W. H. Auden and C. Day Lewis, in their prefaces to a new edition of Frost s Selected Poems, not only...

...George S. Wykoff Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 CHARLES MACKAY: ENGLAND S FORGOTTEN CIVIL WAR CORRESPONDENT GEORGE S. WYKOFF Purdue University AWAR correspondent, no matter how excellent, rarely .rises very high in the literary world as a man of letters. Let him be in addition...