University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises
Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Presidents often assemble ad hoc groups of advisers to help them make decisions during foreign policy crises. These advisers may include the holders of the traditional foreign policy positions--secretaries of state and defense--as well as others from within and without the executive branch. It has...
Locating the Proper Authorities
The Interaction of Domestic and International Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In an era of democratization and globalization, the number of decision makers has multiplied exponentially. Parliamentarians, bureaucrats, international secretariats, regional governors, and nongovernmental organizations have all gained influence at the expense of heads of state. How do these competing...
The Politics of the Trail
Reflexive Mountain Biking along the Frontier of Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Each day, as Oded Löwenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically, feelings and emotions of confusion and estrangement.
In...
Recycling Land
Understanding the Legal Landscape of Brownfield Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Older--and often economically depressed--industrial cities generally have a number of well located but abandoned industrial sites. Too frequently these sites are heavily polluted by the residue of toxic wastes dumped when old factories were still in use. These "brownfield" sites must be...
Baghdad Bulletin
Dispatches on the American Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"David Enders has a stunning independent streak and the courage to trust his own perceptions as he reports from outside the bubble Americans have created for themselves in Iraq."
---Joe Sacco, author of Safe Area Gorazde
"Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts...
After Django
Making Jazz in Postwar France
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz—that quintessentially American music—in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused...
by Ric Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins...
Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup
A Spirited Black Woman in a White World
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn’t just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations—she has been singularly...
Music Is My Life
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural...
Dark Matter
Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Dark Mattermaps the invisible dimension of theater whose effects are felt everywhere in performance. Examining phenomena such as hallucination, offstage character, offstage action, sexuality, masking, technology, and trauma, Andrew Sofer engagingly illuminates the invisible in different periods of...
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China
Kaleidoscopic Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as...
Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko
Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886*–1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903–*1991), gleaned from the diaries of Edward Seidensticker...
The Neuroscientific Turn
Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of...
Brandishing the First Amendment
Commercial Expression in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Tamara R. Piety argues that increasingly expansive First Amendment protections for commercial speech imperil public health, safety, and welfare; the reliability of commercial and consumer information; the stability of financial markets; and the global environment. Using evidence from public relations...