University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Open Wound
The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
A shotgun misfires inside the American Fur Company store in Northern Michigan, and Alexis St. Martin's death appears imminent. It's 1822, and, as the leaders of Mackinac Island examine St. Martin's shot-riddled torso, they decide not to incur a single expense on behalf of the indentured fur trapper....
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
Medieval Constructions of a Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind...
No Middle Ground
How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
“This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling...
by John M. Carey, Richard G. Niemi, Lynda W. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
It has been predicted that term limits in state legislatures--soon to be in effect in eighteen states--will first affect the composition of the legislatures, next the behavior of legislators, and finally legislatures as institutions. The studies in Term Limits in State Legislatures demonstrate that...
Before the Dissertation
A Textual Mentor for Doctoral Students at Early Stages of a Research Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
“This very readable book is what every graduate student needs as they start a program. I wish my own MA and PhD students, during my 40 years of supervising, could have been demystified by having Casanave's ‘textual mentor' as a companion."
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Classical Spies
American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
“Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected.”
—William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Classical Spies...
Treaty Politics and the Rise of Executive Agreements
International Commitments in a System of Shared Powers
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
“Krutz and Peake’s book . . . puts another stake in the heart of the ‘imperial presidency’ argument.”
—Lisa L. Martin, University of Wisconsin–Madison, American Review of Politics
“Krutz and Peake reach their conclusions as a result of carefully crafted examination...
by Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This book provides the first detailed analysis of international rivalries, the long-standing and often violent confrontations between the same pairs of states. The book addresses conceptual components of rivalries and explores the origins, dynamics, and termination of the most dangerous form of rivalry--enduring...
A Good Quarrel
America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
While reading what top legal reporters say about some of the most important U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in recent history, go to www.goodquarrel.com to listen to audio and hear for yourself the very style and delivery of the oral arguments that have shaped the history of our nation's highest...
The View from the Dugout
The Journals of Red Rolfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
"Somewhere, if they haven't been destroyed, there are hundreds of pages of typewritten notes about American League players of that era, notes which I would love to get my hands on."
-Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, on the journals of Red Rolfe
"Red...
Curbing Bailouts
Bank Crises and Democratic Accountability in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
"Rosas's compelling theory and wide-ranging empirical evidence yield a persuasive but surprising conclusion in light of the financial meltdown of 2008–9. In the event of banking crises, not only do elected governments treat taxpayers better and force bankers and their creditors to pay more...
The Role of the Judge in International Trade Regulation
Experience and Lessons for the WTO
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The WTO is generally seen as a key actor of globalization and, as such, has been the point of convergence of popular irritation worldwide. Many of the reproaches addressed to the WTO show civil societys concern with what is perceived as a democratic deficit in the way the organization operates. The...
by Rafael Reuveny, William R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Using a "lead economy" approach, Reuveny and Thompson link question about the global trade system to debates about hegemonic stability and the balance of power in world politics. By focusing on economic growth, protectionism, and trade, they surpass hegemonic stability interpretations of...
Psychology and Constructivism in International Relations
An Ideational Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
"The conversation between political psychology and constructivism is essential and long overdue. By exploring the interaction of individual cognition and social processes, this 'ideational alliance' more fully explains how ideas work all the way down to shape world politics."
---Theo Farrell,...