University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Playing Doctor
Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Playing Doctor is an engaging and highly perceptive history of the medical TV series from its inception to the present day. Turow offers an inside look at the creation of iconic doctor shows as well as a detailed history of the programs, an analysis of changing public perceptions of doctors and medicine,...
Living Ideology in Cuba
Socialism in Principle and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In Living Ideology in Cuba, Katherine Gordy demonstrates how the Cuban state and its people engage in an ongoing negotiation that produces a “living ideology.” In contrast to official slogans and fiats, Cuba’s living ideology is a decentralized phenomenon, continually adapting, informing, and...
Embodied Reckonings
“Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the “comfort women,” the Japanese military’s euphemism for the sexual enslavement of girls and young women—mostly Korean—in the years before and during World...
The Origins of Christian Democracy
Politics and Confession in Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
This book is a pioneering contribution to the history of the founding of the West German political system after the Second World War. The political cooperation between Catholics and Protestants that resulted in the formation of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in occupied and early West Germany...
Minority Parties in U.S. Legislatures
Conditions of Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This study of the influence minority parties wield is both a major work of political science scholarship and a timely examination of an issue with real consequences for the functioning of democratic legislatures and the creation of legislation.
Challenging conventional assumptions that the...
In the Thick of the Fight
The Writing of Emily Wilding Davison, Militant Suffragette
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
One of the most memorable images of the British women’s suffrage movement occurred on June 4, Derby Day, 1913. As the field of horses approached a turning at Epsom, militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison ducked out from under the railing and ran onto the track, reaching for the bridle of the...
by Jonathan Master
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Tacitus’ narrative of 69 CE, the year of the four emperors, is famous for its description of a series of coups that sees one man after another crowned. Many scholars seem to read Tacitus as though he wrote only about the constricted world of imperial Rome and the machinations of emperors, courtiers,...
Clio's Other Sons
Berossus and Manetho
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before...
by Vineeta Yadav, Bumba Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The power granted to the courts, both in a nation’s constitution and in practice, reveals much about the willingness of the legislative and executive branches to accept restraints on their own powers. For this reason, an independent judiciary is considered an indication of a nation’s level of...
The Limits of Legitimacy
Dissenting Opinions, Media Coverage, and Public Responses to Supreme Court Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
When the U.S. Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices themselves. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings despite...
by Jonathan Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
In Cicero’s Use of Judicial Theater, Jon Hall examines Cicero's use of showmanship in the Roman courts, looking in particular at the nonverbal devices that he employs during his speeches as he attempts to manipulate opinion. Cicero's speeches in the law-courts often incorporate theatrical devices...
Roman Artists, Patrons, and Public Consumption
Familiar Works Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In recent decades, the study of Roman art has shifted focus dramatically from issues of connoisseurship, typology, and chronology to analyses of objects within their contemporary contexts and local environments. Scholars challenge the notion, formerly taken for granted, that extant historical texts—the...
The Staff of Oedipus
Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient...
The Laws of the Roman People
Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable. Callie Williamson's book,The Law of the Roman People, finds that the key to Rome's survival and growth...