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...Daphna Golan Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Daphna Golan Next Year in Jerusalem Imagine all the bridges and roads to your city guarded by armed, uniformed soldiers. These sol­ diers ask everyone coming into the area to show an id card. Ifyou have a blue card, you are waved...

...Jeremie Caribou This essay reveals the true history of my people. It demonstrates our highly developed social, spiritual, and political governance structures. Our use of the water systems underscores the ecological integrity of sustainable development that we fostered for thousands of years. Yet...

...Theodore Ropp The Twenty-Five-Year War: America’s Military Role in Vietnam . By General Palmer Bruce R. Jr. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1984 . Pp. ix , 236 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 9i The Twenty-Five-Year War: America s...

...Harlan W. Hamilton Greene Centennial Studies: Essays Presented to Donald Greene in the Centennial Year of the University of Southern California . Edited by Korshin Paul J. Allen Robert R. . Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia , 1985 . Pp. xx , 489 . $27.50...

...William G. Carleton Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 A Six-Year Term for the President? William G. Carleton During the past several years there has arisen an agitation to trans­ form the four-year term of the American president into a six-year term, with an incumbent ineligible...

...Joel Blair Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Defoe s Art in A Journal of the Plague Year Joel Blair Artlessness almost becomes a method in Defoe s narratives as middle-class men and women tell the true stories of their strange yet representative lives. A Journal of the Plague...

...Richmond P. Bond Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Lottery A Note for the Year 1710 Richmond P. Bond By the winter of 1709-10 the English government was again fac­ ing the financial realities of the long French war, just as it had been doing for some years. Seeking relief...

...W. T. Laprade The Year of the Oath: The Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California . By Stewart George R. in collaboration with other Professors of the University of California. Garden City : Doubleday and Co. , 1950 . Pp. 156 . $2.00 . This Happened in Pasadena...

...Clarence Poe Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 L. L. POLK: A GREAT AGRARIAN LEADER IN A FIFTY-YEAR PERSPECTIVE CLARENCE POE FIFTY years ago this year the farmers not only of North Carolina and the South but of America mourned the death of the best-loved leader they have ever had...

...C. A. Krummel Thoughts on Jesting. Translated in the Year 1764 from the Second Edition of a Work by Georg Friedrich Mier of the University of Harlé . Now Edited with Introduction and Notes by Jones Joseph of the University of Texas. Austin : The University of Texas Press , 1947 . Pp...

...Thomas G. Wiener Soviet Literary Theory and Practice during the First Five-Year Plan, 1928-1932 . By Borland Harriet . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1950 . Pp. xi , 256 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 184 The South Atlantic Quarterly This is a worth...

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...W. A. Mabry History of Prince Edward County, Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlements through Its Establishment in 1754 to Its Bicentennial Year . By Bradshaw Herbert Clarence . Richmond : The Dietz Press , 1955 . Pp. xxii , 934 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University...

...James L. Godfrey Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 BRITAIN S RECURRING ECONOMIC CRISES: A TEN-YEAR VIEW James L. Godfrey GREAT BRITAIN at the present moment is showing signs of recovering from a sinking spell in her economic health. This is the fourth time since the war...

...Oliver W. Ferguson James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769 . By Pottle Frederick A. . 1966 . Reprint. New York, Toronto, London : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1985 . Pp. xviii , 606 . $24.95 . James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 . By Brady Frank . New York...

...Martin Kallich Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography. Vol. I: The Unknown Years (1880-1910) . Pp. xxiii , 460 +Index; Vol. II: The Years of Achievement (1910-1932) . Pp. xii , 720 +Bibliography & Index. By Holroyd Michael . New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston , 1968...

... of four children, wife of a local planter, dated 1857: I have been reading Macaulay s Essays find them both entertaining and instructive, and wish that I had history at my tongue s end as he has I look back at the past ten years of my life with much regret, for I feel that I have not devoted that time...

... policies elaborated during the earlier years of the labor movement. The man who first articulated these fundamental policies remains the dominant symbol of American unionism. Nearly a generation after his death, Samuel Gompers, a Spitalfields Jew of Dutch ancestry, cigarmaker, and for forty years leader...

...Robert N. Bellah 2002 by Robert N. Bellah 2002 Robert N. Bellah Seventy-Five Years September I am not sure that even now, more than four...