University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World
A Study of Social History and the Brothel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in the ancient world. Close examination of the social and legal position of Roman meretrices and Greek hetairai have enriched our understanding of ancient sexual relationships and the status of women in these...
Paradigms and Sand Castles
Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of research through interesting and carefully selected examples from the field of comparative development studies.
Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Growth Triumphant
The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Taking a longer view than most literature on economic development, Richard A. Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experience of the last half century in both developed and developing countries and what has gone before. An economic historian and demographer, the author writes...
The Theater Will Rock
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will...
American Prophet
The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A long-overdue book on the brilliant life and career of one of our greatest public intellectuals, American Prophet will introduce Carey McWilliams to a new generation of readers.
Peter Richardson's absorbing and elegantly paced book reveals a figure thoroughly engaged with the issues of his...
Utopia in Performance
Finding Hope at the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold...
Hazel Scott
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
"Hazel Scott was an important figure in the later part of the Black renaissance onward. Even in an era where there was limited mainstream recognition of Black Stars, Hazel Scott's talent stood out and she is still fondly remembered by a large segment of the community. I am pleased to see her...
Counterculture Kaleidoscope
Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion...
by Steve Swayne
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
"The research is voluminous, as is the artistry and perceptiveness. Swayne has lived richly within the world of Sondheim's music."
---Richard Crawford, author of America's Musical Life: A History
"Sondheim's career and music have never been so skillfully dissected, examined,...
The Black Musician and the White City
Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular...
The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."
--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades
"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly...
Deployed
How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
"Deployed is an important and deeply moving book. Here, in this story, the heroic tradition of the American citizen-soldier lives on."
---Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor, Boston University, and author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
"Whatever your...
Gates of Freedom
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
"The question of souls is old; we demand our bodies, now." These words are not from a feminist manifesto of the late twentieth century, but from a fiery speech given a hundred years earlier by Voltairine de Cleyre, a leading anarchist and radical thinker. A contemporary of Emma Goldman---who...