University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Goat Bridge
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
"Brilliant. . . . The intricately layered narrative, moving back and forth in time and space, builds to a conclusion both bloody and subtle . . ."
---Chicago Tribune
". . . in his most far-reaching and scorchingly beautiful novel, [McNally] extends his acute insights into the...
Securing the Sacred
Religion, National Security, and the Western State
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Western nations have increasingly recognized religion as a consideration in domestic and foreign policy. In this empirical comparison of the securitization of Islam in Britain, France, and the United States, Robert M. Bosco argues that religion is...
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America
A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Muslims in a Post-9/11 America examines how public fears about Muslims in the United States compare with the reality of American Muslims’ attitudes on a range of relevant issues. While most research on Muslim Americans focuses on Arab Muslims, a quarter of the Muslim American population, Rachel...
Emotional Reinventions
Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Focusing on representational approaches to emotion during the years of American literary realism’s dominance and in the works of such authors as Edith Wharton, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, W. D. Howells, Charles Chesnutt, and others, Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations Beyond Sympathy contends...
Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands
Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands brings to life one of the most significant (but under examined) figures in the history of U.S. colonialism in the Philippines. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Worcester, a scientist who had traveled twice to the Philippines on zoological expeditions,...
Yiddish Empire
The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Yiddish Empire tells the story of how a group of itinerant Jewish performers became the interwar equivalent of a viral sensation, providing a missing chapter in the history of the modern stage. During World War I, a motley group of teenaged amateurs, impoverished war refugees, and out- of- work Russian...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The San Francisco Mime Troupe Reader is a long-overdue collection of some of the finest political satires created and produced by the Tony Award-winning company during the last forty years.
It is also a history of the company that was the theater of the counterculture movement in the 1960s...
by Josh Levithan
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows...
I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Remaking Music in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
"In Albin J. Zak III's highly original study, phonograph records are not just the medium for disseminating songs but musical works unto themselves. Fashioned from a mix of copyright law, recording studios and techniques, the talent of musicians and disc jockeys, the ingenuity and avarice of producers,...
The Jurisprudence of Emergency
Colonialism and the Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Ever-more-frequent calls for the establishment of a rule of law in the developing world have been oddly paralleled by the increasing use of "exceptional" measures to deal with political crises. To untangle this apparent contradiction, The Jurisprudence of Emergency analyzes the historical...
by Thomas Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The first-century Roman tragedies of Seneca, like all ancient drama, do not contain the sort of external stage directions that we are accustomed to today; nevertheless, a careful reading of the plays reveals such stage business as entrances, exits, setting, sound effects, emotions of the characters,...
The Real and the Sacred
Picturing Jesus in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The figure of Jesus appears as a character in dozens of nineteenth-century novels, including works by Balzac, Flaubert, Dickens, Dostoevsky, and others. The Real and the Sacred focuses in particular on two fiction genres: the Jesus redivivus tale and the Jesus novel. In the former, Christ makes...
Doing Time on the Outside
Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
"Stigma, shame and hardship---this is the lot shared by families whose young men have been swept into prison. Braman reveals the devastating toll mass incarceration takes on the parents, partners, and children left behind."
-Katherine S. Newman
"Doing Time on the Outside brings...
Grit, Noise, and Revolution
The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
". . . a great blow-by-blow account of an exciting and still-legendary scene."
---Marshall Crenshaw
From the early days of John Lee Hooker to the heyday of Motown and beyond, Detroit has enjoyed a long reputation as one of the crucibles of American pop music. In Grit, Noise, and Revolution,...