University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Faith in the City
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
“The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the ‘Long New Negro Renaissance,’ triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one has done a better job of tracing those...
Positive Political Theory I
Collective Preference
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Positive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Entrepreneurship and globalization are two much-examined forces as we enter the new millennium--yet very little has been published on the intersection of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the global economy. To close the gap, this volume delves into the intricate roles and consequences...
The Resonance of Unseen Things
Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood...
by Louis L. Orlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Intended for readers seeking insight into the day-to-day life of some of the world's most ancient peoples, Life and Thought in the Ancient Near East presents brief, fascinating explorations of key aspects of the civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Asia Minor, and Iran. With vignettes on...
What Do Gay Men Want?
An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
“Compelling, timely, and provocative. The writing is sleek and exhilarating. It doesn’t waste time telling us what it will do or what it has just done—it just does it.”
—Don Kulick, Professor of Anthropology, New York University
How we can talk about sex and risk in the age of barebacking—or...
Games, Information, and Politics
Applying Game Theoretic Models to Political Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
To study the strategic interaction of individuals, we can use game theory. Despite the long history shared by game theory and political science, many political scientists remain unaware of the exciting game theoretic techniques that have been developed over the years. As a result they use overly simple...
A Woman's Place Is in the House
Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as men. Why, then, are there still so few women members of Congress? Compared to other democratically elected national parliaments,...
More Secure, Less Free?
Antiterrorism Policy & Civil Liberties after September 11
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The first comprehensive analysis of the full range of antiterror initiatives undertaken in the United States after the 2001 terrorist attacks
Unlike earlier books published shortly after the September 11 attacks that focus on the Patriot Act, More Secure, Less Free? covers the Patriot Act but...
To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face
Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
“To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face addresses an area—the relationship of American political violence to American ideology—that is of growing importance and that is commanding an ever increasing audience, and it does so in a way like nothing else in the field.”
—David Williams, Indiana...
Latin American Elections
Choice and Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
The Michigan model, named after the institution where it was first articulated, has been used to explain voting behavior in North American and Western European democracies. In Latin American Elections, experts on Latin America join with experts on electoral studies to evaluate the model’s applicability...
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans
A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"This is history as it should be written. In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, a logical advancement on his earlier studies, Fine has successfully tackled a fascinating historical question, one having broad political implications for our own times. Fine's approach is to demonstrate...
Arthur Miller's America
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Perspectives on America's greatest living playwright that explore his longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater
Arthur Miller's America collects new writing by leading international critics and scholars that considers the dramatic world of icon, activist, and playwright...
Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted by its own history.
Ross...