University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
This Is My Body
Representational Practices in the Early Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The recipient of the annual Award for Outstanding Book in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, This Is My Body realigns representational practices in the early Middle Ages with current debates on the nature of representation. Michal Kobialkai's study...
The Lying Brain
Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
"The Lying Brain is a study to take seriously. Its argument is timely, clear, and of particular importance to the enlargement of our understanding of the relationships among science studies, literary studies, and technology studies."
---Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma
Real...
by Ruby Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by...
Getting to War
Predicting International Conflict with Mass Media Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
This book shows how to predict wars. More specifically, it tells us how to anticipate in a timely fashion the scope and extent of interstate conflict. By focusing on how all governments--democratic or not--seek to secure public support before undertaking risky moves such as starting a war, Getting...
Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played...
by Lawrence Baum
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
From local trial courts to the United States Supreme Court, judges' decisions affect the fates of individual litigants and the fate of the nation as a whole. Scholars have long discussed and debated explanations of judicial behavior. This book examines the major issues in the debates over how best...
Slaves to Fashion
Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate."
---Tom Hayden
"Slaves to Fashion is a remarkable achievement, several books in one: a gripping history of sweatshops, explaining their decline, fall, and return;...
by Barry Ames
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates...
by Ole Rudolf Holsti
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
"A substantial contribution to understanding the role of public opinion and the news media during the Iraq War. Equally impressive, it effectively puts the domestic context of U.S. policy in historical perspective, making the book useful to historians as well as to political scientists."
---Ralph...
Constituting Workers, Protecting Women
Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the legal system.
During...
Bodies in Commotion
Disability and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions...
The Changing Face of Representation
The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
As the number of women in the U.S. Senate grows, so does the number of citizens represented by women senators. At the same time, gender remains a key factor in senators’ communications to constituents as well as in news media portrayals of senators. Focusing on 32 male and female senators during...
Foreign Policy and Congress
An International Relations Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
In the traditional view of foreign policy making in the United States, the President is considered the primary authority and Congress is seen as playing a subsidiary role. Marie T. Henehan looks at the effects of events in the international system on both the content of foreign policy and what actions...
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya
Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use...