Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism.
HAL FOSTER, ROSALIND KRAUSS, YVE-ALAIN BOIS, AND BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism London: Thames and Hudson, 2005. 2 vols.: vol. 1, 1900-1944, 352 pp., 210 color ills., 106 b/w. $46.88; vol. 2, 1945-2003, 424 pp., 236 color ills., 128 b/w....

Sung and unsung: musical reflections on Tanzanian postsocialisms.
ABSTRACT On 14 October 1999, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the first president of the United Republic of Tanzania, died in a London hospital. In Tanzania, musical bands throughout the country reacted to the news by composing scores of lamentation songs (nyimbo za maombolezo) that mourned his passing and...

Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
There are two novels that many of this year's studies refer to either directly or obliquely. They are Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Sophia Lee's best seller, The Recess. Both of these Gothic novels question closely and acutely from the angle of women's experience the relationship between romance and...

Biological terrorism: legal measures for preventing catastrophe.
Biological terrorism is a truly despicable subject, raising nightmares of primal fear. Disease -- plague, smallpox, and other decimating maladies -- is dire trauma embedded in humanity's collective consciousness. Now, when the threat of thermonuclear holocaust may be ebbing, a few zealots or criminals can kill thousands (or more)...

Recent UN textbooks: suggestions from an old-fashioned practitioner. (Review Essay).
Peter R. Baehr and Leon Gordenker, The United Nations at the End of the 1990s, 3d ed. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), 203 pp. W. Andy Knight, A Changing United Nations: Multilateral Evolution and the Quest for Global Governance (New York: Palgrave, 2000), 257 pp. ...

The silence of contemporary Syrian literature.
IS THERE A SYRIAN LITERATURE? There is, of course, no such thing as Syrian literature. Certainly, citizens of the modern nation-state of Syria write literature, but to claim that "Syrian literature" exists in the same way that, say, Russian literature or German literature exists is misleading. First,...

'These proverbes yet do last': Lydgate, the fifth earl of Northumberland, and tudor miscellanies from print to manuscript.
ABSTRACT Two miscellanies containing analogous texts, the 1510? Prouerbes of Lydgate printed by Wynkyn de Worde and part of Bodleian MS Arch. Selden. B 10 commissioned by the fifth Earl of Northumberland, are of interest in this article. The evidence provided by de Worde's edition of the...

Has fractional-reserve banking really passed the market test? (Controversy).
The theory of free banking has experienced a great renaissance in recent years. The authors of many articles, books, and doctoral dissertations have made the case for the possibility and suitability of a purely private or competitive banking system. Virtually all these works were inspired by some variant of...

From the inside out: nurturing aesthetic response to nature in the primary grades.
Ali slowed her small steps, released my hand, then crouched to the sidewalk. As she peered downward, the Texas autumn sunlight bounced brilliantly off her copper-penny hair. Our walk was interrupted; a fallen leaf, green and gold and still soft, had captured her attention. A chubby finger reached delicately...

Down memory lane: representations of domestic workers in middle class personal narratives of colonial bengal.
If one rummages through the pages of autobiographies and memoirs left by Bengali middle-class men and women living in colonial times one cannot possibly miss the characters and activities of the domestic workers surrounding the authors as they were growing up. The repeated appearance of servants and maids in...