Wayne Press: 446 books
"Old Slow Town"
Detroit During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Though it was located far away from Southern battlefields, Detroit churned with unrest during the American Civil War. The city's population, including a large German and Irish immigrant community, mostly aligned with anti-war Democrats while the rest of the state stood with the pro-Lincoln Republicans....
Justus S. Stearns
Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Near the turn of the twentieth century, “Pine King” Justus S. Stearns was Michigan’s largest producer of manufactured lumber and the owner of a prosperous coal mining operation headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, a town he founded. Over the course of his career, Stearns would own at least thirty...
Max Lilienthal
The Making of the American Rabbinate
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Explores the life and thought of Rabbi Max Lilienthal, who created a new model for the American rabbinate.
by Desiree Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016
While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector—at the center of each mother is an individual who is attempting to manage her own fears, desires, and responsibilities in different and sometimes unexpected ways. In Know the Mother, author Desiree Cooper explores the complex archetype...
by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
New from award-winning Michigan writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not...
Under Michigan
The Story of Michigan's Rocks and Fossils
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2005
Most people recognize Michigan by its mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula and the Great Lakes embracing the state. Underneath the earth’s surface, however, is equally distinctive evidence of an exciting history. Michigan rests on sedimentary rocks that reach down into the earth’s crust more than fourteen...
by Jim Leach
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
A comprehensive account of Doctor Who as a television series and product of popular culture.
Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a “riot,” “rebellion,” “uprising,”...
Personal Views
Explorations in Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Robin Wood, the renowned scholarly critic and writer on film, has prepared a new introduction and added three essays to his classic text Personal Views. This important book contains essays on a wide range of films and filmmakers and considers questions of the nature of film criticism and the critic....
The Stooges
Head On
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The story of seminal Ann Arbor punk rock band the Stooges, told through original interviews with the band members and associates.
The Nazis' Last Victims
The Holocaust in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary...
The Jews of Hungary
History, Culture, Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering...
The Politics of Genocide
The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous...
Time’s Visible Surface
Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
Expands our understanding of Alois Riegl beyond his role as an art historian to a pivotal figure in cultural theory at large, while placing his interest in history and time within the intellectual world of fin-de-siècle Vienna.