Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
by Ricardo Piglia
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, The Absent City takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power...
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI
The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
With Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920, Duke University Press proudly assumes publication of the final volumes of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. This invaluable archival project documents the impact and spread of the Universal Negro Improvement Association...
Entry Points
The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center’s twentieth anniversary. This book captures some of the most significant...
The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition
Volume 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Duke University Press is pleased to announce the second edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader. The Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today’s health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians,...
The Constitution Besieged
The Rise & Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1995
The Constitution Besieged offers a compelling reinterpretation of one of the most notorious periods in American constitutional history. In the decades following the Civil War, federal and state judges struck down as unconstitutional a great deal of innovative social and economic legislation. Scholars...
Speculation, Now
Essays and Artwork
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether "the speculative"...
Mondo Exotica
Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them—Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as the renewed interest in them evident in contemporary music and design. The music journalist and radio...
Blutopia
Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of their work, Lock shows how these distinctive artists were each influenced by a common musical and spiritual...
Durham County
A History of Durham County, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
In this revised and expanded second edition of Durham County, Jean Bradley Anderson extends her sweeping history of Durham from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth. Moving beyond traditional local histories, which tend to focus on powerful families, Anderson integrates the stories...
Ivy and Industry
Business and the Making of the American University, 1880–1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
Emphasizing how profoundly the American research university has been shaped by business and the humanities alike, Ivy and Industry is a vital contribution to debates about the corporatization of higher education in the United States. Christopher Newfield traces major trends in the intellectual and...
The Intimate University
Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping...
Arts in Earnest
North Carolina Folklife
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1989
Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill. Traversing from Murphy to Manteo, these fifteen essays demonstrate the importance of North Carolina’s continually changing folklife. From decoy carving along the coast, to the music of tobacco...
On Longing
Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 1992
Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the...
Schools into Fields and Factories
Anarchists, the Guomindang, and the National Labor University in Shanghai, 1927–1932
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this collaborative effort by two leading scholars of modern Chinese history, Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik investigate how the short-lived National Labor University in Shanghai was both a reflection of the revolutionary concerns of its time and a catalyst for future radical experiments in education....