University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The Isthmus of Corinth
Crossroads of the Mediterranean World
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The narrow neck of land that joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland was central to the fortunes of the city of Corinth and the history of Greece from the classical Greek period to the end of the ancient world. Corinth was perfectly situated for monitoring land traffic between Athens and...
by T. Y. Wang, Christopher H Achen
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
The Taiwan Voter examines the critical role ethnic and national identities play in politics, utilizing the case of Taiwan. Although elections there often raise international tensions, and have led to military demonstrations by China, no scholarly books have examined how Taiwan’s voters make electoral...
Arguments with Silence
Writing the History of Roman Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves. Amy Richlin, among the foremost pioneers in ancient studies, gives voice to these women through scholarship that scours sources from high art to gutter invective.
In Arguments...
Schoolbook Nation
Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back to almost the beginning of the republic. Moreau's writing is engaging, with brilliant flashes of insight, as well as balance and wit."
-Gary B....
The Rise of the African Novel
Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The Rise of the African Novel is the first book to situate South African and African-language literature of the late 1880s through the early 1940s in relation to the literature of decolonization that spanned the 1950s through the 1980s, and the contemporary generation of established and emerging continental...
Uncharted
Creativity and the Expert Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
What do expert drummers do? Why do they do it? Is there anything creative about it? If so, how might that creativity inform their practice and that of others in related artistic spheres? Applying ideas from cultural psychology to findings from research into the creative behaviors of a specific subset...
The Sea
Thalassography and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
The Seabrings together a group of noted contributors to evaluate the different ways in which seas have served as subjects in historiography and asks how this has changed---and will change---the way history is written. The essays in this volume provide exemplary demonstrations of how a sea-based history-writing...
Our Ancient Wars
Rethinking War through the Classics
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Many famous texts from classical antiquity—by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles and Euripides, the comic poet Aristophanes, the philosopher Plato, and, above all, Homer—present powerful and profound accounts of wartime experience, both on and off the battlefield. These texts...
The Stuff of Fiction
Advice on Craft
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In this book, prizewinning novelist and popular creative writing instructor Douglas Bauer (The Book of Famous Iowans) shares the secrets of his trade. Talent, as Bauer acknowledges, is the most crucial element for a writer and cannot be taught. But without a regular habit of work, and a perseverance...
The Captive Stage
Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The subject of rights occupies a central place in liberal political thought. This tradition posits that rights are entitlements of individuals by virtue of their personhood and that rights stand apart from politics, that rights in fact hold at bay intrusions of state policy. The essays in Identities,...
Material Witness
The Selected Letters of Fairfield Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"The publication of Porter's letters marks an occasion for a renewed celebration of his painting and an appreciation of his quirky, indeed ornery, personality. Porter was a feisty correspondent, who fearlessly entered the intellectual discourse of his time."
---From the introduction by David...
by Francois Louis, Peter N Miller
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise...
Hammarskjöld
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
After his mysterious death, Dag Hammarskjöld was described by John F. Kennedy as the "greatest statesman of our century." Second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953 - 61), he is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Through extensive research...