Wayne State University Press: 405 books
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...
Embodying Hebrew Culture
Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
From their conquest of Palestine in 1917 during World War I, until the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the British controlled the territory by mandate, representing a distinct cultural period in Middle Eastern history. In Embodying Hebrew Culture: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Dance in the...
by John McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
For eight seasons between 2001 and 2010, Fox’s 24 garnered critical accolades and became one of the most watched and discussed shows in primetime. In an innovative premise, the show’s hour-long episodes were meant to represent a real-time hour of the story, so that each twenty-four-episode season...
by Patricia Majher
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
A deep-sea diver, a dancer, an activist, an aviator, a singer, and a soldier—Great Girls in Michigan History highlights some of the girls from Michigan’s past who did amazing things before they turned twenty years old. Author Patricia Majher presents easy-to-read mini-biographies of twenty girls...
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.
by Aimé J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.
Asian Americans in Michigan
Voices from the Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
While the number of Asians in Michigan was small for a good portion of the state’s history, many Asian-derived communities have settled in the area and grown significantly over time. In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one...
Jewish Honor Courts
Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the aftermath of World War II, virtually all European countries struggled with the dilemma of citizens who had collaborated with Nazi occupiers. Jewish communities in particular faced the difficult task of confronting collaborators among their own ranks—those who had served on Jewish councils, worked...
The Genocidal Gaze
From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The...
The Way North
Collected Upper Peninsula New Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is distinct from the rest of the state in geography, climate, and culture, including a unique and thriving creative writing community. In The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, editor Ron Riekki presents poetry, fiction, and non-fiction from memorable, varied voices...
Cycles of Influence
Fiction, Folktale, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
In this wide-ranging and insightful analysis, Stephen Benson proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale. Postmodernist fictions have evidenced a return to narrative—to storytelling centered on a sequence of events, rather than a "spiraling" of events as...
by Ann Schmiesing
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms’ Children’s and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, author Ann Schmiesing analyzes various representations...
Between Jewish Tradition and Modernity
Rethinking an Old Opposition, Essays in Honor of David Ellenson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Although the ideas of “tradition” and “modernity” may seem to be directly opposed, David Ellenson, a leading contemporary scholar of modern Jewish thought, understood that these concepts can also enjoy a more fluid relationship. In honor of Ellenson, editors Michael A. Meyer and David N. Myers...
by Henry Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The first mass killings of the Romanian Holocaust in late June to early July 1941 brutally claimed thousands of victims and marked the beginning of the government's plan to "cleanse the land" of Jews. Moreover, of all the Third Reich's allies, only Romania undertook its genocide campaign without the...