University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
Race, Madness, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to antilynching and American warmongering made him notorious. When Robeson announced at the 1949 Paris...
The Pedagogical Contract
The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that since antiquity has been regarded as a scene of give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment by the...
How Long Have You Been With Us?
Essays on Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
“Like the myriad companions and comrades that he summons from their exile,...
Sacred Violence
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This impressive collection of essays by many renowned scholars was compiled in honor of Richard F. Fenno's contribution to legislative studies. Utilizing various approaches to examine the impact of strategic behavior, rules, and institutions on legislative outcomes, this book produces significant...
Communities and Law
Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical dimensions of community--nationality, social stratification, gender, religion, ethnicity, and legal consciousness--within...
Weimar through the Lens of Gender
Prostitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
"This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly."
---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College
Until...
Butterfly, the Bride
Essays on Law, Narrative, and the Family
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Carol Weisbrod uses a variety of stories to raise important questions about how society, through law, defines relationships in the family. Beginning with a story most familiar from the opera Madame Butterfly, Weisbrod addresses issues such as marriage, divorce, parent-child relations and abuses, and...
Harmony and the Balance
An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Frequently the achievements of pioneering economic writers are assessed by imposing contemporary theories of markets, economics, politics, and history. At last, here is a book that appraises the work of the leading English economic writers of the seventeenth century using intellectual concepts of...
Understanding Torture
Law, Violence, and Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"John Parry's Understanding Torture is an important contribution to our understanding of how torture fits within the practices and beliefs of the modern state. His juxtaposition of the often indeterminate nature of the law of torture with the very specific state practices of torture is both startling...
The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders
With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
In an age when world affairs are powerfully driven by personality, politics require an understanding of what motivates political leaders such as Hussein, Bush, Blair, and bin Laden. Through exacting case studies and the careful sifting of evidence, Jerrold Post and his team of contributors lay out...
Institutions and Investments
Foreign Direct Investment in China during an Era of Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
As China continues to be heralded as a rising economic power, the need for an understanding of its institutional effects--such as investment-related policies, regulations, and laws--on foreign direct investment increases as well. Institutions and Investments employs interdisciplinary perspectives...
Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry
The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."
--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Remarkable in its breadth-an...
Seven Stories of Threatening Speech
Women's Suffrage Meets Machine Code
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Ruth A. Miller demonstrates the potential of taking nonhuman linguistic activity—such as the running of machine code—as an analytical model. Via a lively discussion of 19th-century pro- and antisuffragists, Miller tells a new computational story in which language becomes a thing that executes...