University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The Justice of Constantine
Law, Communication, and Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
As the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine the Great has long interested those studying the establishment of Christianity. But Constantine is also notable for his ability to control a sprawling empire and effect major changes. The Justice of Constantineexamines Constantine's judicial and...
The Measure of Manliness
Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel. Mid-Victorian novels evidenced a proliferation of male...
by Jason Cianciotto, Sean Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices and local, state, and federal laws that affect LGBT students. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth...
The Rise of the Representative
Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Representation is integral to the study of legislatures, yet virtually no attention has been given to how representative assemblies developed and what that process might tell us about how the relationship between the representative and the represented evolved. The Rise of the Representative corrects...
Between Military Rule and Democracy
Regime Consolidation in Greece, Turkey, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Why do the armed forces sometimes intervene in politics via short-lived coups d’état, at other times establish or support authoritarian regimes, or in some cases come under the democratic control of civilians? To find answers, Yaprak Gürsoy examines four episodes of authoritarianism, six periods...
Interrogating Privilege
Reflections of a Second Language Educator
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Interrogating Privilege is a welcome combination of personal essays and academic research, blending theory, analysis, and narrative to explore the function and consequences of privilege in second language education.
While teachers’ focus on the learning process and class goals are quite important,...
Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform
The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
In Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform, Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts present an original study of U.S. congressional elections and electoral institutions for 1872-1944 from a contemporary political science perspective. Using data on late nineteenth and early twentieth century congressional...
Textual Rivals
Self-Presentation in Herodotus’ Histories
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Textual Rivals studies some of the most debated issues in Herodotean scholarship. One such is Herodotus’ self-presentation: the conspicuousness of his authorial persona is one of the most remarkable features of his Histories. So frequently does he interject first-person comments into the narrative...
The New Imperial Presidency
Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Has the imperial presidency returned?
"Well written and, while indispensable for college courses, should appeal beyond academic audiences to anyone interested in how well we govern ourselves. . . . I cannot help regarding it as a grand sequel for my own The Imperial Presidency."
---Arthur...
Women of the Andes
Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Pilar is a capable, energetic merchant in the small, Peruvian highland settlement of Chiuchin. Genovena, an unmarried day laborer in the same town, faces an impoverished old age without children to support her. Carmen is the wife of a prosperous farmer in the agricultural community of Mayobamba, eleven...
The Impossible Machine
A Genealogy of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Adam Sitze meticulously traces the origins of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission back to two well-established instruments of colonial and imperial governance: the jurisprudence of indemnity and the commission of inquiry. This genealogy provides a fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding...
Germany's Wild East
Constructing Poland as Colonial Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, representations of Poland and the Slavic East cast the region as a primitive, undeveloped, or empty space inhabited by a population destined to remain uncivilized without the aid of external intervention. These depictions often made direct reference to the American...
Stop Reading! Look!
Modern Vision and the Weimar Photographic Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
In the second half of the Weimar period (1918–33), photographers produced books consisting almost entirely of sequenced images. The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metropolis, from exotic cultures to the German Volk, from anonymous workers to historical figures. While...
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible
Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores the surprising history of efforts aimed at rehabilitating convicts in 20th-century Germany, efforts founded not out of an unbridled optimism about the capacity of people to change, but arising from a chronic anxiety about the potential threats posed by...