Duke University Press Books imprint: 2462 books
Evolution's Eye
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2000
In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates...
Unveiling Traditions
Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2000
In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of...
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave...
The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s
Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental...
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning <BR>
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of...
by Philip Mirowski
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
A leading scholar of the history and philosophy of economic thought, Philip Mirowski argues that there has been a top-to-bottom transformation in how scientific research is organized and funded in Western countries over the past two decades and that these changes necessitate a reexamination of the...
by Brian Rotman, Andrew Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1997
Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory is a unique collection of essays dealing with the intersections between science and mathematics and the radical reconceptions of knowledge, language, proof, truth, and reality currently emerging from poststructuralist literary theory, constructivist history...
Under Cover of Science
American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
For more than two decades, the law and economics movement has been one of the most influential and controversial schools of thought in American jurisprudence. In this authoritative intellectual history, James R. Hackney Jr. situates the modern law and economics movement within the trajectory of American...
Animate Planet
Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral...
Between Legitimacy and Violence
A History of Colombia, 1875–2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia’s “long twentieth century,” from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. Marco Palacios, a leading Latin American historian, skillfully blends political,...
The Struggle for Maize
Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
When scientists discovered transgenes in local Mexican corn varieties in 2001, their findings intensified a debate about not only the import of genetically modified (GM) maize into Mexico but also the fate of the peasantry under neoliberal globalization. While the controversy initially focused on...
Intimate Enemies
Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state’s violent history. Scholarly discussion of agrarian politics has typically cast landed elites as “bad guys” with predetermined...
A British Enterprise in Brazil
The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Marshall Eakin presents what may be the most detailed study ever written about the operations of a foreign business in Latin America and the first scholarly, book-length study of any foreign business enterprise in Brazil. Between 1830 and 1970 the British-owned St. John d’el Rey Mining Company,...
Financial Missionaries to the World
The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2004
Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize
*Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S....