University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Finding Italy
Travel, Nation, and Colonization in Vergil's Aeneid
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans’ ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil’s epic poem Aeneid. K. F. B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism, specifically the problem of how one comes...
Starting Over
Feminism and the Politics of Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
For more than a decade Judith Newton has been at the forefront of defining and promoting materialist feminist criticism. Starting Over brings together a selection of her essays that chart the establishment of feminist literary criticism in the academy and its relation to other forms of cultural criticism,...
Making Men Ridiculous
Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Writing during the reign of emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Juvenal drew on Roman legend and the history of preceding imperial dynasties as a means of scrutinizing cultural upheavals in the Rome of his day. Tacky foreigners, the nouveaux riches, women who don’t know their place, bloodthirsty—even...
Building Character
The Art and Science of Casting
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film—the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character examines how the process of “casting” an actor in a part creates a character and how this can be...
The Matter of Disability
Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book’s contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex...
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Manipulating Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek...
Ceremony and Power
Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In Ceremony and Power, Geoffrey Sumi is concerned with the relationship between political power and public ceremonial in the Roman Republic, with particular focus on the critical months following Caesar's assassination and later as Augustus became the first emperor of Rome. The book traces the use...
The Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2019
The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of liberty and government by law used to justify the colonizing power's insistence on a regime of conquest. Nasser Hussain argues that the interaction...
State of Translation
Turkey in Interlingual Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
International politics often requires two or more languages. The resulting interlingual relations mean translation, either by interpreters who are quite literally in the middle of conversations, or by bilingual statesmen who negotiate internationally in one language and then legitimize domestically...
Honor Among Thieves
Craftsmen, Merchants, and Associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Honor Among Thieves examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. Scholars have long viewed such associations primarily as social or religious groups that provided mutual support, proper burial, and sociability, and spaces where nonelite individuals...
Beyond the Veil of Knowledge
Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Is there a need to remodel constructivism to be more politically attuned? Author Piki Ish-Shalom calls for an activist academy that engages society and the polity to prevent the watering down of democracy, while helping to create a space for criticism. In this book, he suggests several concrete measures...
The Future of NATO
Regional Defense and Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The conclusion of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operations in Afghanistan in 2014 closes an important chapter in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In this volume, European and US experts examine a range of perennial issues facing the Alliance, including...
by Andreas Dür, David Marshall, Patrick Bernhagen
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Many citizens, politicians, and political activists voice concern about the political influence of business in the European Union. But do business interests really pull the strings in Brussels? Contrary to expectations, this book shows that business interests are no more influential than other interests...
The Return of Ideology
The Search for Regime Identities in Postcommunist Russia and China
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
As a nation makes the transition from communism to democracy or another form of authoritarianism, its regime must construct not only new political institutions, but also a new political ideology that can guide policy and provide a sense of mission. The new ideology is crucial for legitimacy at home...