Duke University Press: 2463 books
by Heidemarie Uhl, Richard J. Golsan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
For sixty years, different groups in Europe have put forth interpretations of World War II and their respective countries’ roles in it consistent with their own political and psychological needs. The conflict over the past has played out in diverse arenas, including film, memoirs, court cases, and...
The Times Were Strange and Stirring
Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1995
With the conclusion of the Civil War, the beginnings of Reconstruction, and the realities of emancipation, former slaves were confronted with the possibility of freedom and, with it, a new way of life. In The Times Were Strange and Stirring, Reginald F. Hildebrand examines the role of the Methodist...
English Lessons
The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...
The Art of the Network
Strategic Interaction and Patronage in Renaissance Florence
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed...
Remaking Modernity
Politics, History, and Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity assesses the field’s past accomplishments and peers into the future, envisioning changes to come. The seventeen essays in this collection reveal the potential of historical sociology to transform understandings of social and...
States of Memory
Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies...
by Lora Wildenthal, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the...
Salt in the Sand
Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military...
Disciplining Statistics
Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation and use of statistical knowledge. Through a comparison of vital statistics and demography, Schweber describes...
Beyond Belief
India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and...
Nostalgia for the Modern
State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other....
Native Sons
West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues...
Sociology and Empire
The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project—assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq—caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology...