University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Poker
The Parody of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Poker is an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon with major social, cultural, and political implications, and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism investigates the game of poker as a cultural expression of significance not unlike art, literature, film, or music. Tracing the history of poker and comparing...
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies
Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"James F. Wilson uncovers fascinating new material on the Harlem Renaissance, shedding light on the oft-forgotten gay and lesbian contributions to the era's creativity and Civil Rights. Extremely well researched, compellingly written, and highly informative."
---David Krasner, author of...
Textual Awareness
A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's...
Joining the Conversation
Dialogues by Renaissance Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Avoiding the male-authored model of competing orations, French and Italian women of the Renaissance framed their dialogues as informal conversations, as letters with friends that in turn became epistles to a wider audience, and even sometimes as dramas. No other study to date has provided thorough,...
by Mark I. Lichbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in contemporary social science, to the detriment of alternative methods of research. The debate has gained a nonacademic audience, hitting the pages of...
The Challenge of Hegemony
Grand Strategy, Trade, and Domestic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The Challenge of Hegemony explains how international forces subtly influence foreign, economic, and security policies of declining world powers. Using detail-rich case studies, this sweeping study integrates domestic and systemic policy to explain these countries' grand strategies. The book concludes...
Triumph of the Fatherland
German Unification and the Marginalization of Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The East German uprising of 1989 was not a male revolution. Indeed, one of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. As one slogan proclaimed, "Without...
The Art of Economic Persuasion
Positive Incentives and German Economic Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Much has been written about a state's use of the threat of military force or economic sanctions to change the behavior of another state. Less is known about the use of positive measures such as economic assistance and investment as a means of influence. This study looks at the ways in which government...
The German Problem Transformed
Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Does the new, more powerful Germany pose a threat to its neighbors? Does the new German Problem resemble the old? The German Problem Transformed addresses these questions fifty years after the founding of the Federal Republic and ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Many observers have...
Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making
The Publics and the Policies that Presidents Choose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
We expect a president to respond to public opinion as an elected official in a democracy. Indeed, the president needs public support to overcome opposition to his policies in Congress and the bureaucracy. At the same time the president may want to pursue policies that do not have widespread support....
Improper Influence
Campaign Finance Law, Political Interest Groups, and the Problem of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Why is there still so much dissatisfaction with the role of special interest groups in financing American election campaigns, even though no aspect of interest group politics has been so thoroughly regu-lated and constrained? This book argues that part of the answer lies in the laws themselves, which...
Trade Threats, Trade Wars
Bargaining, Retaliation, and American Coercive Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
This study of American trade policy addresses two puzzles associated with the use of aggressive bargaining tactics to open foreign markets. First, as the country with greater power and resources, why has the United States achieved more success in extracting concessions from some of its trading partners...
To Agree or Not to Agree
Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Why were the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union able to negotiate a series of arms control agreements despite the deep and important differences in their interests during the Cold War? Lisa A. Baglione considers a variety of explanations for the successes--and failures--of these negotiations...
Equal Justice in the Balance
America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
"We are in difficult times for the protection of our liberties. Nonetheless, citizens are showing an increased willingness to resist the erosion of the U.S. Constitution. . . . Lawson Mack and Kelly stress the importance of not giving up these fundamental rights and conclude with a message of...