Wayne State University Press: 405 books
The Detroit Public Library
An American Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
For the last century, the Detroit Public Library has ranked as one of the most beautiful buildings in Detroit — an important landmark as well as a significant monument serving generations of Detroiters. The Detroit Public Library: An American Classic was born out of “Discover the Wonders,” an art...
Huron
The Seasons of a Great Lake
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Napier Shelton takes us on a journey as he spends a year at his family's cottage on the lake. Having visited Lake Huron for over thirty years, Shelton weaves family memories into his evocative and informed account of the seasons on this great lake. In 1995, Shelton spent a year at the cottage more fully...
by Jean Alicia Elster
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and...
Great Lakes Journey
A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
Great Lakes Journey is a follow-up to William Ashworth's earlier book The Late, Great Lakes, published in 1986. Fifteen years after his first trip, Ashworth journeys to many of the same places and talks to many of the same people to examine the changes that have taken place along the Great Lakes since...
The Art of Memory
Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the look and feel of cemeteries in the United States changed dramatically, from utilitarian burial grounds to the serene parklike spaces that we know today. The so-called park cemetery was innovative not only for its distinctive landscape architecture...
Beyond Sectarianism
The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide scholarly investigations of the group for the next four decades. As American Orthodoxy continues to grow in geographical, institutional, and political strength,...
Experience and Expression
Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
The many powerful accounts of the Holocaust have given rise to women’s voices, and yet few researchers have analyzed these perspectives to learn what the horrifying events meant for women in particular and how they related to them. In Experience and Expression, the authors take on this challenge, providing...
From Court to Forest
Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
From Court to Forest is a critical and historical study of the beginnings of the modern literary fairy tale.
by Anjeana K. Hans
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The Weimar period in Germany was a time of radical change, when the traditions and social hierarchies of Imperial Germany crumbled, and a young, deeply conflicted republic emerged. Modernity brought changes that reached deep into the most personal aspects of life, including a loosening of gender roles...
by Jaimey Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
A look at how the discussions, debates, and controversies in Germany about youth and reeducation after World War II helped Germans come to terms with their Nazi past, negotiate Allied occupation, and construct postwar German identity.
Sayles Talk
New Perspectives on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
His name is synonymous with "independent film," and for more than twenty-five years, filmmaker John Sayles has tackled issues ranging from race and sexuality to the abuses of capitalism and American culture, aspiring to a type of realism that Hollywood can rarely portray. This collection offers unprecedented...
by Lesley Brill
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
A noted critic brings crowd theory to Film Studies, offering a bold new analysis of the pervasive cinematic themes of transformation and power.
by Joanne Morreale
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Dick Van Dyke Show (CBS 1961–66) was a uniquely self-reflexive sitcom that drew on vaudevillian tropes at a time when vaudeville-based comedy variety was disappearing from television. At the same time, it reflected the liberal politics of the Kennedy era and gave equal time to home and work as...
by Michael A. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1972
An excellent overview of the intellectual history of important figures in German Jewry.