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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond doi 10.1215/0961754x-2009-025 David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 320 pp. This “Global History” is an important little book. By “little,” I mean both that it is short, only 144 pages of text, and also a small-format codex — though larger than the Princeton University Press version of Harry Frankfurt’s Bullshit. In a normally formatted book, this text would run to fewer than 100 pages — a point Common Knowledge 15:3 © 2009 by Duke University Press worth remarking because it shows how much more flexible academic publishers are becoming in presenting work that would not otherwise be thought a “book.” Indeed, The Declaration of Independence probably began life as a provocative article (for which I think I was a reviewer) in the William and Mary Quarterly, which stimulated a Harvard University Press editor to suggest expanding it for book publication. Well, it is not a book in the usual sense, but rather three loosely and cleverly connected essays, each reflecting on the international character of the Declaration of Independence: the world in the Declaration, the Declaration in the world, and a world of declarations. Written by someone less bright http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond

Roberts, Simone
Common Knowledge , Volume 15 (3) – Oct 1, 2009
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doi 10.1215/0961754x-2009-025 David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 320 pp. This “Global History” is an important little book. By “little,” I mean both that it is short, only 144 pages of text, and also a small-format codex — though larger than the Princeton University Press version of Harry Frankfurt’s Bullshit. In a normally formatted book, this text would run to fewer than 100 pages — a point Common Knowledge 15:3 © 2009 by Duke University Press worth remarking because it shows how much more flexible academic publishers are becoming in presenting work that would not otherwise be thought a “book.” Indeed, The Declaration of Independence probably began life as a provocative article (for which I think I was a reviewer) in the William and Mary Quarterly, which stimulated a Harvard University Press editor to suggest expanding it for book publication. Well, it is not a book in the usual sense, but rather three loosely and cleverly connected essays, each reflecting on the international character of the Declaration of Independence: the world in the Declaration, the Declaration in the world, and a world of declarations. Written by someone less bright

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