Duke University Press: 2463 books
River of Hope
Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
In River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chronicles a history of violence resulting from multiple conquests, of resistance and accommodation...
by E. Roy Weintraub, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2002
In How Economics Became a Mathematical Science E. Roy Weintraub traces the history of economics through the prism of the history of mathematics in the twentieth century. As mathematics has evolved, so has the image of mathematics, explains Weintraub, such as ideas about the standards for accepting...
Incognegro
A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It...
Moral Economies of Corruption
State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies...
by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women’s...
Novel Gazing
Queer Readings in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory...
Kingdom of Beauty
Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim...
Between You and Me
Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
In the decades preceding the Stonewall riots—in the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinsey’s controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoia—discussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip...
Imagining la Chica Moderna
Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country. Some of the images were addressed directly to women through advertisements, as illustrations accompanying articles...
Intercultural Utopias
Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Although only 2 percent of Colombia’s population identifies as indigenous, that figure belies the significance of the country’s indigenous movement. More than a quarter of the Colombian national territory belongs to indigenous groups, and 80 percent of the country’s mineral resources are located...
Cultured States
Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Cultured States is a vivid account of the intersections of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 1960s and early 1970s. Andrew Ivaska describes a cosmopolitan East African capital rocked by debates...
Smoldering Ashes
Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 1999
In Smoldering Ashes Charles F. Walker interprets the end of Spanish domination in Peru and that country’s shaky transition to an autonomous republican state. Placing the indigenous population at the center of his analysis, Walker shows how the Indian peasants played a crucial and previously unacknowledged...
Making Jazz French
Music and Modern Life in Interwar Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2003
Between the world wars, Paris welcomed not only a number of glamorous American expatriates, including Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also a dynamic musical style emerging in the United States: jazz. Roaring through cabarets, music halls, and dance clubs, the upbeat, syncopated rhythms...
The Last Physician
Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanitoriums. This collection...