...E. Malcolm Carroll The Soviets in World Affairs: A History of the Relations between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World, 1917-1929 . By Fischer Louis . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2d edition, 1951 . 2 vols. Pp. xviii , 892 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1952...

...William Egginton Duke University Press 2007 William Egginton The Corporeal Image and the New ​ World Baroque ​In practically all attempts to theorize the baroque, the same dilemma is encountered: when we use...

... of established practices that are fundamentally undemocratic. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Dara E. Goldman There’s (Always) Something about Cuba: Security and States of Exception in a Fundamentally Unsafe World ​Michael Moore firmly established himself...

... and reassert their central role in the politics of the region. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Michael Hardt and Alvaro Reyes ​“New Ways of Doing”: The Construction of Another World in Latin America: An Interview with Raúl Zibechi Democratic Organizational...

...Philippe Roussin; Alice Kaplan Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Philippe Roussin Getting Back from the Other World: From Doctor to Author Things developed in such a way that the life of a doctor, of a humble doctor . . . has become im­ possible and has complicated my life more...

...Philip Stevick Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The World and the Writer: A Speculation on Fame Philip Stevick I It is a commonplace of literary history, although implicit and never articu­ lated, that there are two kinds of fame. One kind is ancient and continuous. Beowulf...

...John M. Clum The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film . By Dick Bernard F. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1985 . Pp. ix , 294 . $26.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 389 mained comfortable only in German, could...

...Susan Willis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Susan Willis Disney World: Public Use/Private State I recall a discussion with four or five women friends on the subject of shopping malls. None of us was pro-mall, so our talk tended to highlight those aspects of malls that most...

...Jane Kuenz Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Jane Kuenz It s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification In my family, the story goes that my sister s engagement was orchestrated by Disney. One autumn night, she and her partner placed themselves in Bistro...

...Susan Willis Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Susan Willis Critical Vantage Points on Disney s World I ve never understood why there is so little serious criticism of Walt Disney. I suppose the general inferiorization of mass culture as a field for the application of theory ac­...

...Kenneth Surin Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Kenneth Surin Transform the World, Change Life: Michael Taussig s Poetics of Destruction and Revelation Transform the world, said Marx; change life, said Rimbaud: for us these two watchwords are one. Andre Breton . . . [T]he...

...Geeta Kapur Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Geeta Kapur When Was Modernism in Indian/Third World Art? . . . [T]he innovations of what is called Modern­ ism have become the new but fixed forms of our present moment. If we have to break out of the non-historical fixity of post...

...Leonid Heller Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Leonid Heller A World of Prettiness: Socialist Realism and Its Aesthetic Categories Many works on socialist realism endow this artistic method (to use the Soviet ter­ minology) with the status of an aesthetics ; indeed, the term...

...Immanuel Wallerstein Immanuel Wallerstein The Insurmountable Contradictions of Liberalism: Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples in the Geoculture of the Modern World-System 26 August 1789, the French National Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.1 It has re­...

...Valery Podoroga Valery Podoroga The Eunuch of the Soul: Positions of Reading and the World of Platonov Platonov s literature, the striking style of his prose, is born out of a special art of seeing one may say, out of a special culture of the eye. In an article entitled Proletarian Poetry...

...Robert Markley Robert Markley Land enough in the World : Locke s Golden Age and the Infinite Extension of Use God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon, Of Gardens ardens haunt the seventeenth-century imagi­ nation. While images...

...Richard Roberts Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Richard Roberts The Construction of Cultures in Diaspora: African and African New World Experiences In the early 1980s, historians of Africa began to question the naturalness of the tribe as the unit of political organization...

... Environments: Towards an Estimate of the Environmental Burden of Disease . Geneva : World Health Organization . Prüss-Üstün Annette . 2014 . “Burden of Disease from Inadequate Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Low- and Middle-Income Settings: A Retrospective Analysis of Data from 145 Countries...

.... Mindful of the ambivalences of silence, it contends that the tensions inherent to its politics foster the suspension of assertions on how the world is, or how it should be. In this way, silence is argued as crucial to making spaces in which the proliferation of different ways of being can occur and from...

...Sidney H. Bremer Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 American Dreams and American Cities in Three Post-World War I Novels Sidney H. Bremer Until World War I, the Weltanschauungen underlying America s major fictional genres insisted on the primacy of dream the reality of image...