University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face
Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
“To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face addresses an area—the relationship of American political violence to American ideology—that is of growing importance and that is commanding an ever increasing audience, and it does so in a way like nothing else in the field.”
—David Williams, Indiana...
Latin American Elections
Choice and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability...
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans
A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"This is history as it should be written. In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, a logical advancement on his earlier studies, Fine has successfully tackled a fascinating historical question, one having broad political implications for our own times. Fine's approach is to demonstrate...
Digital Rubbish
A Natural History of Electronics
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
This is a study of the material life of information and its devices; of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations; a cultural and material mapping of the spaces where electronics in the form of both hardware and information accumulate, break down, or are stowed away. Electronic...
Arthur Miller's America
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater
Arthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, and playwright...
Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted by its own history.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
No American playwright is more revered on the international stage than Arthur Miller. In Arthur Miller’s Global Theater—a fascinating collection of new essays by leading international critics and scholars—readers learn how and why audiences around the world have responded to the work of the...
The Subject and Other Subjects
On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Subject and Other Subjects theorizes the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. When a person is called beautiful, why does it strike us as an objectification? Is a person whom we consider to be an exemplary person still a person, and not an example? Can one...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Whether it's real or imaginary, every child has a secret space, and this remarkable book explores them all. For some it's a treehouse or a hidden spot beneath a bush; for others it's a private psychic refuge--a favorite book, or a dollhouse that becomes a stage for a young imagination. As the more...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
As tariffs on imports of manufactures have been reduced as a result of multi-lateral trade negotiations, interest in the extent to which existing nontariff barriers may distort and restrict international trade is growing. Accurate and reliable measures are needed in order to address the issues involving...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The contributors to this volume include numerous members of the trade policy community who analyze and discuss the salient social dimensions of U.S. trade policies. These issues include the effects of trade on wage inequality; trade and immigration policy; U.S. trade adjustment assistance policies;...
Democracy without Associations
Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
India's party system has undergone a profound transformation over the last decade. The Congress Party, a catch-all party that brought independence in 1947 and governed India for much of the period since then, no longer dominates the electoral scene. Political parties which draw support from particular...
The Well-Being of the Elderly in Asia
A Four-Country Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
The past two decades have witnessed rapid social, economic, and demographic change in East and South-East Asia. The older populations in these regions have been increasing faster than in the West, and the proportions of people over sixty will more than double over the next thirty years. Increased...
by Alan Verne Deardorff, Robert Mitchell Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The contributors to this volume, economists and political scientists from academic institutions, the private sector, and the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, came together to discuss an important topic in the formation of U.S. international trade policy: the representation...