University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The International Relations of Middle-earth
Learning from The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction to International Relations using J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastically popular trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Because Tolkien's major themes---such as good...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
"Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." --Choice
"The subject of...
Vanishing Moments
Class and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of class...
Disarmed Democracies
Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
In Disarmed Democracies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force, David P. Auerswald examines how the structure of domestic political institutions affects whether democracies use force or make threats during international disputes. Auerswald argues that the behavior of democracies in interstate...
The Urban Voter
Group Conflict and Mayoral Voting Behavior in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Karen Kaufmann's groundbreaking study shows that perceptions of interracial conflict can cause voters in local elections to focus on race, rather than party attachments or political ideologies. Using public opinion data to examine mayoral elections in New York and Los Angeles over the past 35 years,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior, prominent political scientists critically examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann Pritchett, Glendon Schubert, S. Sidney Ulmer, Harold J. Spaeth, Joseph Tanenhaus, Beverly Blair Cook, Walter...
Causal Case Study Methods
Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching, and Tracing
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological differences among these methods, offer suggestions for determining the appropriate methods for a given research project, and explain...
Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales
The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale...
by Harriet Murav
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
While endogenous growth theory has claimed success in modeling various factors of growth and providing an analysis of sustainable economic growth, most of the growth models in published work are for closed economies. The omission of international trade, which is often regarded as the engine of growth,...
Building the Cold War Consensus
The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests...
by David Luban
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost their validity. Some doubt the importance of the rule of law, others question the objectivity of legal reasoning. We have lost confidence in the...
Narrating Their Lives
Examining English Language Teachers' Professional Identities within the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
“…a groundbreaking book that will…engage, inform, and connect with present and future teachers and teacher educators.”
---Stephanie Vandrick, Foreword to Narrating Their Lives
The field of TESOL has called attention to the ways that the issues...
The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical...