University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Market Dreams
Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology...
Africa in Translation
A History of Colonial Linguistics in Germany and Beyond, 1814-1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
"Africa in Translation is a thoughtful contribution to the literature on colonialism and culture in Germany and will find readers in the fields of German history and German studies as well as appealing to audiences in the large and interdisciplinary fields of colonialism and postcolonialism."
---Jennifer...
by Harry J. Elam
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of Fences, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic...
Facing It
AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is capable of generating. But in the case of AIDS diaries, the metaphor can be literal. Facing...
by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability...
by Tasha Philpot
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Whether their slogan is “compassionate conservatism” or “hawkish liberalism,” political parties have always sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making minor adjustments to their public image. How do voters respond to these, often short-term, campaign appeals? Race, Republicans,...
Imagining the Forest
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early nineteenth century to the present....
A Crooked Line
From Cultural History to the History of Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
"Eley brilliantly probes transformations in the historians' craft over the past four decades. I found A Crooked Line engrossing, insightful, and inspiring."
--Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic
"A Crooked Line brilliantly captures the most significant shifts in the...
Extreme Pursuits
Travel/Writing in an Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Recent figures suggest that there will be 1.6 billion arrivals at world airports by the year 2020. Extreme Pursuits looks at the new conditions of global travel and the unease, even paranoia, that underlies them---at the opportunities they offer for alternative identities and their oscillation between...
Implementing Term Limits
The Case of the Michigan Legislature
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Today, 70 percent of the American public supports reforms that would limit the number of terms a state legislator may serve, and the advocacy group U.S. Term Limits promotes this reform at all levels of government. But are advocates correct that term limits ensure citizens dedicated to the common...
The Playing Fields of Eton
Equality and Excellence in Modern Meritocracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
"Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, The Playing Fields of Eton takes us on a three-century tour of modern mental and physical life. We visit gymnasiums and dueling fields, murderball courts and Olympic venues, and while immersed in thought-provoking stories of people wrestling with the...
After Independence
Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The majority of the existing work on nationalism has centered on its role in the creation of new states. After Independence breaks new ground by examining the changes to nationalism after independence in seven new states. This innovative volume challenges scholars and specialists to rethink conventional...
The Games of July
Explaining the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
"Frank C. Zagare combines a deep command of historical scholarship and the sophisticated skills of an applied game theorist to develop and test a theory of why deterrence failed, catastrophically, in July 1914. . . . Zagare concludes with sage advice on how to avoid even more cataclysmic breakdowns...
by Daniel Aaron
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
“ I have read all of Daniel Aaron’ s books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist...