Duke University Press: 2463 books
We Were the People
Voices from East Germany’s Revolutionary Autumn of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1992
On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down. Communism was dead, the Cold War was over, and freedom was on the rise—or so it seemed. We Were the People tells the story behind this momentous event. In an extraordinary series of interviews, the key actors...
Finding the Movement
Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and...
by Karlyn Forner
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed...
Rivers by Design
State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented...
Ordinary Medicine
Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Most of us want and expect medicine’s miracles to extend our lives. In today’s aging society, however, the line between life-giving therapies and too much treatment is hard to see—it’s being obscured by a perfect storm created by the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries, along with insurance...
Now Is the Time!
Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots community-housing initiatives intended to revitalize...
The Apartment Plot
Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Rethinking the significance of films including Pillow Talk, Rear Window, and The Seven Year Itch, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the “apartment plot,” her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s,...
Transnational America
Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes...
Suffering for Territory
Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the...
Trading Roles
Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosí
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Located in the heart of the Andes, Potosí was arguably the most important urban center in the Western Hemisphere during the colonial era. It was internationally famous for its abundant silver mines and regionally infamous for its labor draft. Set in this context of opulence and oppression associated...
Empire's Garden
Assam and the Making of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local...
Sounding the Modern Woman
The Songstress in Chinese Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
From the beginning of the sound cinema era, singing actresses captivated Chinese audiences. In Sounding the Modern Woman, Jean Ma shows how their rise to stardom attests to the changing roles of women in urban modernity and the complex symbiosis between the film and music industries. The songstress—whether...
Rotten States?
Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
Official corruption has become increasingly prevalent around the world since the early 1990s. The situation appears to be particularly acute in the post-communist states. Corruption—be it real or perceived—is a major problem with concrete implications, including a lowered likelihood of foreign...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This study incorporates three important themes into the study of presidential selection:
What are the international implications of how the Unites States chooses its presidents? How does the process affect other nations? Does it enhance or diminish the ability of the United States to deal effectively...