University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The Political Economy of Expertise
Information and Efficiency in American National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
The Political Economy of Expertise is a carefully argued examination of how legislatures use expert research and testimony. Kevin Esterling demonstrates that interest groups can actually help the legislative process by encouraging Congress to assess research and implement well-informed policies.
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Reinventing the State
Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The political economic history of Latin America in the post-World War II era has largely been one of underachievement and opportunities lost. This all changed with the wave of market reforms that were implemented in the 1990s. However, the precise role of these reforms as an agent of change is still...
Finance Capitalism Unveiled
Banks and the German Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
If we are moving toward one global financial market, will all national financial systems that determine how businesses raise money look the same? Richard Deeg argues that, despite financial market integration and considerable harmonization in the regulation of financial markets, the traditional structure...
Tax Politics in Eastern Europe
Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
For decades, the primary argument in justifying education has been based on its direct economic effects. Yet education also provides "social benefits" for individuals and society at large, including a better way of taking care of ourselves, and consequently creating a better society to live...
Childhood Years
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886–1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational—and not necessarily honest—eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.
Lives in Play
Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political...
Heartless Immensity
Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating...
Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative."
---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
In 1901, George Ward, a...
Whispered Consolations
Law and Narrative in African American Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
African Americans have experienced life under the rule of law in quite different contexts from those of whites, and they have written about those differences in poems, songs, stories, autobiographies, novels, and memoirs. This book examines the tradition of American law as it appears in African American...
The Body of Poetry
Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's...
by Shelley Lynn Tremain
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault’s call to question...
Chinese Dreams
Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
China’s profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary journal Tel quel. Chinese Dreams explores the complex, intricate relationship between various “Chinas”—as...
Look at Me!
The Fame Motive from Childhood to Death
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Four million adults in the United States say that becoming famous is the most important goal in their lives. In any random sampling of one hundred American adults, two will have fame as their consuming desire. What motivates those who set fame as their priority, where did the desire come from, how...