AbstractSeveral thousand students joined small clusters of soldiers, workers, and others in revolutionary opposition to the Brazilian civilian-military dictatorship that came to power in 1964 and cont...

As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.

Abstract. A lo largo del siglo xx, en el Tercer Mundo, la izquierda que se definía revolucionaria y permanecía en la oposición reivindicó una mejor distribución de la riqueza sin considerar el crecimi...

As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.

As Duke University Press celebrates its 100th year, we take some time to reflect on our history and the important role played by university presses.

Every season, there’s a particular sort of novel that elicits its own genre of disdain. It’s somehow “too personal” and also lacking in “depth.” It’s called things like indulgent, trashy, lazy,…

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Abstract. This article examines the fate of people who had escaped slavery in colonial Cartagena de Indias as well as that of their descendants. In the 1690s, colonial military troops captured many in...

Coalition building between faculty and administrators could now be a matter of survival.

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A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously?

Last week, an independent commission determined that the illustrious soccer club had engaged in extreme financial chicanery totaling a whopping $1.2 billion.