Wayne Press: 446 books
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...
"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"
Michigan, 1948-1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic...
by David G. Chardavoyne
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2003
The first historical study—and a riveting account—of the last execution in Michigan.
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...
Queer Enchantments
Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this volume, author Anne E....
Christophe Honoré
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
French filmmaker Christophe Honoré challenges audiences with complex cinematic form, intricate narrative structures, and aesthetically dynamic filmmaking. But the limited release of his films outside of Europe has left him largely unknown to U.S. audiences. In Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction,...