Wayne Press: 446 books
Iron Will
Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The history of Cleveland-Cliffs, a company that played a key role in iron mining development in the Lake Superior region.
Clara
Mrs. Henry Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
"Pick a good model and stay with it," Henry Ford once said. No, he was not talking about cars; he was talking about marriage. Was Clara Bryant Ford a "good model"? Her husband of fifty-nine years seems to have thought so. He called her "The Believer," and indeed Clara's unwavering support of Henry's...
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"—the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through copy machines,...
by Dennis Broe
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Airing on ABC from 1957 to 1962, Maverick appeared at a key moment in television Western history and provided a distinct alternative to the genre’s usual moralistic lawmen in its hero, Bret Maverick. A non-violent gambler and part-time con man, Maverick’s principles revolved around pleasure and not...
Redevelopment and Race
Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and...
Trespassing
Dirt Stories and Field Notes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Essays and stories that contemplate the exploitation of Michigan’s agricultural landscape by modern factory farms.
The Politics of Magic
DEFA Fairy-Tale Films
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
From Paul Verhoeven’s The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold’s The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany’s state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length, live-action fairy-tale films based on nineteenth-century...
The French Canadians of Michigan
Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Most information regarding the French Canadians in Michigan concerns those who settled during the French period. However, another significant migration occurred during the industrial period of the nineteenth century, when many French Canadians settled in the Saginaw Valley and on the Keweenaw Peninsula—two...
Mapping Detroit
Land, Community, and Shaping a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how...
Greetings from Detroit
Historic Postcards from the Motor City
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Greetings from Detroit: Historic Postcards from the Motor City offers a glimpse into the past through more than two hundred historic postcards of Detroit from the early 1900s to the 1950s, compiled and presented in full color by Dan Austin of HistoricDetroit.org. From familiar sights to long lost...
by Royce Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas.
Shadows of Doubt
Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films, Barry Keith Grant questions the idea that Hollywood movies reflect moments of crisis in the dominant image of masculinity. Arguing instead that part of the mythic function of genre movies is to offer audiences an ongoing dialogue...
Millennial Masculinity
Men in Contemporary American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, editor Timothy...
by Ina Rae Hark
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Considers the HBO series Deadwood in the context of the television Western genre and the intersection of capital and violence in American history.