Wayne State University Press: 405 books
MC5
Sonically Speaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
A definitive history of the MC5 that considers the band’s musical legacy and revolutionary political roots.
Henry’s Attic
Some Fascinating Gifts to Henry Ford and His Museum
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1995
Henry's Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.
by Ford R. Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
An illustrated collection of essays about the various people, events, and experiments from Henry Ford’s lifetime.
by Jack Ridl
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life-a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer-become the settings for transcendent and universal truths in these...
The Last Laugh
Strange Humors of Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
For critics, fans, and scholars of drama and film, the laugh has traditionally been tied to comedy, indicating and expressing mirth, witty relief, joyous celebration, or arch and sarcastic parody. But strange, dark laughter that illuminates non-comedic, unfunny situations gets much less attention. In...
Writing in Light
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan’s "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early...
by M.M. Silver
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Examines the phenomenon of Exodus and its influence on post–World War II understandings of Israel’s beginnings.
Bernard Malamud
A Centennial Tribute
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American...
Designing Detroit
Wirt Rowland and the Rise of Modern American Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
In the early 1900s, Detroit was leading the nation in architectural innovation and designer Wirt Rowland was at the forefront of this advancement, yet few are even aware of his substantial contribution to the evolution of architectural style. It is widely believed that celebrated local architect Albert...
by Ford R. Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Although Henry Ford gloried in the limelight of highly publicized achievement, he privately admitted, "I don't do so much, I just go around lighting fires under other people." Henry's Lieutenants features biographies of thirty-five "other people" who served Henry Ford in a variety of capacities, and...
Reimagining Detroit
Opportunities for Redefining an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city’s vacant spaces.
by Bill Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
A poetic reimagining of the life of Booker T. Washington that explores issues of being an African American male of note at the beginning of the twentieth century.
The Dodge Brothers
The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, much to Ford’s advantage, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive...
Riding the Roller Coaster
A History of the Chrysler Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
From the Chrysler Six of 1924 to the front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s to the minivan, Chrysler boasts an impressive list of technological "firsts." But even though the company has catered well to a variety of consumers, it has come to the brink of financial ruin more than once in its seventy-five-year...