Duke University Press: 2463 books
Culture Wars in Brazil
The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists,...
Laws of Chance
Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or “animal game,” originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892. During the next decade, it became a cultural phenomenon all over Brazil, where it remains popular today. Laws of Chance chronicles the game’s early history, as booking agents, dealers,...
In from the Cold
Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing...
A Date Which Will Live
Pearl Harbor in American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
December 7, 1941—the date of Japan’s surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor—is "a date which will live" in American history and memory, but the stories that will live and the meanings attributed to them are hardly settled. In movies, books, and magazines, at memorial sites...
by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free...
The Urban Generation
Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events...
Writing Taiwan
A New Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works...
by Paulo Fontes
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of São Paulo's extraordinary urban and industrial expansion. Fontes focuses on those migrants who settled in the suburb of São Miguel Paulista,...
by Sue Peabody
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was...
Border Dilemmas
Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between staying there or returning to Mexico by moving south...
El Alto, Rebel City
Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2008
Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several...
Between the Guerrillas and the State
The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region’s cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers....
Who Can Stop the Drums?
Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements...
The Spectacular City
Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city’s outskirts only to find that the rights of citizens—basic rights of property and security, especially protection from...