Wayne State University Press: 405 books
A Beaver Tale
The Castors of Conners Creek
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
When Detroit was settled over three hundred years ago, beavers (then known by the French name “castors”) were one of the most numerous and important animals in North America. Yet the aggressive beaver pelt trade in Detroit and elsewhere decimated the animal’s population, and the region’s remaining...
by Jack Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Elmore Leonard said about Jack Driscoll’s stories, “The guy can really write.” And in The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot, he once again demonstrates in every sentence the grace and grit of a true storyteller. The ten stories are mostly set in Michigan’s northern lower peninsula, a landscape...
by Theresa L. Geller
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Premiering in 1993 on FOX Network, The X-Files followed the investigations of two FBI special agents, Fox Mulder and Dr. Dana Scully as they pursued the supernatural, the bizarre, and the alien, as well as the government conspiracies at work to conceal the truth of their existence. For nine seasons,...
by Keith Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
“A Bird-while. In a natural chronometer, a Bird-while may be admitted as one of the metres, since the space most of the wild birds will allow you to make your observations on them when they alight near you in the woods, is a pretty equal and familiar measure” (Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Journal,...
Arsenal of Democracy
The American Automobile Industry in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Throughout World War II, Detroit's automobile manufacturers accounted for one-fifth of the dollar value of the nation's total war production, and this amazing output from "the arsenal of democracy" directly contributed to the allied victory. In fact, automobile makers achieved such production miracles...
by Christopher Sharrett
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
A comprehensive analysis of what many consider to be television’s most intelligent western.
From Tinseltown to Bordertown
Los Angeles on Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Los Angeles is a global metropolis whose history and social narrative is linked to one of its top exports: cinema. L.A. appears on screen more than almost any city since Hollywood and is home to the American film industry. Historically, conversations of social and racial homogeneity have dominated the...
Frankfurt on the Hudson
The German Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-82, Its Structure and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1989
Using organizational bulletins, surveys, interviews, and personal observations and anecdotes, Lowenstein paints a picture of a unique lifestyle now in the process of merging into American Jewry and disappearing.
A Sailor's Logbook
A Season Aboard Great Lakes Freighters
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
In this firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes, Mark Thompson weaves together the threads of a story that relives a centuries-old tradition. Thompson began his logbook after he reported for duty aboard the Calcite II at Fraser Shipyard in Superior, Wisconsin, for the 1996 shipping...
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two...
Let’s Flip the Script
An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
An inspiring collection of personal essays about education, literacy, and freedom.
by Ford R. Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
An illuminating photographic tour of Henry Ford’s famous Rouge plant—an industrial site that signifies an era’s triumph in integrated manufacturing and economic progress.
Your Average Nigga
Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
Roads to Prosperity
Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities explores the relative prosperity of midsize Canadian urban areas (population 50,000 to 400,000) over the past two decades. Communities throughout North America have strived for decades to maintain and enhance the prosperity...