Original Reviews

          Cathy Gere’s book is not critiquing Arthur Evans’ reconstruction of this ancient prehistoric site in Crete; Evans has been ‘deconstructed’ by others. Rather she discusses how the excavation of Knossos in the first decade of the twentieth century influenced psychoanalysts, linguists, artists, classicists, and poets. Gere calls them prophets of modernism.
          Evans and his [...]

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          The idea of ‘civilizing’ warfare may appear to be an oxymoron. But efforts to do just that date back to the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. Lawrence Rockwood’s interesting discussion covers both jus ad bellum – the decision to engage in military action, and jus in bellum – the conduct of the armies, both [...]

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          In November 2005, in the Paris banlieues (suburbs) gangs of males, many of them in their early teens, went on rampages, burning cars, breaking windows, and battling with the police. Parisians lodge their poor in several of its suburbs, without jobs and suitable housing. The rioters were mostly first and second-immigrants from North Africa. [...]

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        This is Middle Eastern history in the twentieth century told from the point of view of the Arab world. There is much that the reader probably doesn’t know about this “unmaking.” For example, remember the publication of cartoons in 2005 in a Danish newspaper and then elsewhere that mocked the prophet Muhammad. Muslims everywhere [...]

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