Duke University Press: 2463 books
Bioinsecurities
Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called the government of species. The book explores...
Conquest
Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted...
An Aqueous Territory
Sailor Geographies and New Granada's Transimperial Greater Caribbean World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between 1760 and 1860. Focusing on the Caribbean coast of New Granada (present-day Colombia), Bassi shows that the region's residents did not live their lives bounded by...
Empire of Care
Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2003
In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many...
The One and the Many
Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists and groups widely celebrated in the mainstream art...
The Day of Shelly's Death
The Poetry and Ethnography of Grief
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family had arrived in the northern Philippine village of Mungayang, where she and her husband Renato, both accomplished...
Working Fictions
A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Working Fictions takes as its point of departure the common and painful truth that the vast majority of human beings toil for a wage and rarely for their own enjoyment or satisfaction. In this striking reconceptualization of Victorian literary history, Carolyn Lesjak interrogates the relationship...
An Epistemology of the Concrete
Twentieth-Century Histories of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, one of the world’s foremost philosophers of science. In these essays, he examines the history of experiments, concepts, model organisms,...
Gods of the Blood
The Pagan Revival and White Separatism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2003
Racist paganism is a thriving but understudied element of the American religious and cultural landscape. Gods of the Blood is the first in-depth survey of the people, ideologies, and practices that make up this fragmented yet increasingly radical and militant milieu. Over a five-year period during...
Revolutionary Nativism
Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to China from Europe or Japan; rather it emerged...
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Images at War
Mexico From Columbus to Blade Runner (1492–2019)
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2001
“If colonial America was the melting pot of modernity, it was because it was also a fabulous laboratory of images. . . . Just as much as speech and writing, the image can be a vehicle for all sorts of power and resistance.” So writes Serge Gruzinski in the introduction to Images at War, his striking...
Imposing Harmony
Music and Society in Colonial Cuzco
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Imposing Harmony is a groundbreaking analysis of the role of music and musicians in the social and political life of colonial Cuzco. Challenging musicology’s cathedral-centered approach to the history of music in colonial Latin America, Geoffrey Baker demonstrates that rather than being dominated...
Vertical Empire
The General Resettlement of Indians in the Colonial Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
In 1569 the Spanish viceroy Francisco de Toledo ordered more than one million native people of the central Andes to move to newly founded Spanish-style towns called reducciones. This campaign, known as the General Resettlement of Indians, represented a turning point in the history of European colonialism:...