Duke University Press: 2463 books
Men, Mobs, and Law
Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related...
Babes in Tomorrowland
Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2005
Linking Margaret Mead to the Mickey Mouse Club and behaviorism to Bambi, Nicholas Sammond traces a path back to the early-twentieth-century sources of “the normal American child.” He locates the origins of this hypothetical child in the interplay between developmental science and popular media....
Culture of Class
Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920–1946
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina's domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to...
Tropical Renditions
Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Tropical Renditions Christine Bacareza Balance examines how the performance and reception of post-World War II Filipino and Filipino American popular music provide crucial tools for composing Filipino identities, publics, and politics. To understand this dynamic, Balance advocates for a "disobedient...
A Language of Song
Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to...
Networking Futures
The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)—including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities...
Rendering Life Molecular
Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles. Proteins twist and wriggle as they carry out the activities that keep cells alive. Figuring out how to make these unruly...
by Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays,...
Aircraft Stories
Decentering the Object in Technoscience
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
In Aircraft Stories noted sociologist of technoscience John Law tells “stories” about a British attempt to build a military aircraft—the TSR2. The intertwining of these stories demonstrates the ways in which particular technological projects can be understood in a world of complex contexts.
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Machiavelli
The Chief Works and Others, Vol. II
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
From praise for the 1965 edition:
Allan Gilbert is unquestionably the most accurate and reliable translator of Machiavelli into English; the publication of this edition is an altogether happy occasion. Students of the history of political thought owe a particular debt of gratitude to Allan...
Humanism and Secularization
From Petrarch to Valla
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2003
The Renaissance movement known as humanism eventually spread from Italy through all of western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being felt and debated. Central to these debates—and to this book—is the question of whether (and how) the humanist movement contributed...
Downwardly Global
Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward...
Mutual Impressions
Writers from the Americas Reading One Another
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
It is commonly assumed that the United States and Latin America, culturally so different, move artistically to very different rhythms. Also common is the assumption that, with rare exception, the literary figures on one side of the global North/South divide have had little interest in the work of...
Epigenetic Landscapes
Drawings as Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Devised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent of big-data genomic...