University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Character Is Destiny
The Autobiography of Alice Salomon
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer,...
Separate Destinations
Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Natives who change residence do not settle in the same places as immigrants. Separate Destinations argues that these distinct mobility patterns, coupled with record levels of immigration from impoverished third world nations, are balkanizing the American electorate. James G. Gimpel examines the consequences...
by Michael Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits Michael Atkinson gives new readings, became famous by taking nothing for granted. Holmes's adventures can be read in new ways, including ways that he...
Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage
From Plautus to Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars...
The Afterlife of Pope Joan
Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Amid the religious tumult of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English scholars, preachers, and dramatists examined, debated, and refashioned tales concerning Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman who, as legend has it, cross-dressed her way to the papacy only to have her imposture exposed when...
An Utterly Dark Spot
Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Slovenian philosopher Miran Bozovic's An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining its various encounters with the gaze. Its range is impressive, moving from the Greek philosophers and theorists of the body (Aristotle, Plato, Hippocratic...
The Learned Collector
Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan...
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice...
by Samir Chopra, Laurence F. White
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“An extraordinarily good synthesis from an amazing range of philosophical, legal, and technological sources . . . the book will appeal to legal academics and students, lawyers involved in e-commerce and cyberspace legal issues, technologists, moral philosophers, and intelligent lay readers interested...
Sensual Relations
Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating...
The Color of Representation
Congressional Behavior and Black Interests
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The central domestic issue in the United States over the long history of this nation has been the place of the people of color in American society. One aspect of this debate is how African-Americans are represented in Congress. Kenny J. Whitby examines congressional responsiveness to black interests...
America Beyond Black and White
How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
“This book is both powerful and important. Powerful for the testimony it provides from Americans of many different (and even mixed races) about their experiences. And important because there is a racial revolution underway that will upend race as we know it during the twenty-first century.”
—John...
Racial Union
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was...
Blues, How Do You Do?
Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and...