University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Britain and World Power since 1945
Constructing a Nation's Role in International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
?Though Britain’s descent from global imperial power began in World War II and continued over the subsequent decades with decolonization, military withdrawal, and integration into the European Union, its foreign policy has remained that of a Great Power. David M. McCourt maintains that the lack...
Making Human
World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Differences between human beings have long been used to justify a range of degrading, exclusionary, and murderous practices that strip people of their humanity and dignity. While considerable scholarship has been devoted to such dehumanization, Matthew S. Weinert asks how we might conceive its reverse—humanization,...
The Experience of Modernity
Chinese Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Autobiography of the first half of the twentieth century was used variously by different groups of writers to interrogate, negotiate, and even to program the social and political progress of China. However, despite the popularity and success of this genre, it has also been the most forgotten in literary...
The One and Only Law
Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” widely considered his final word on law, proposes that all manifestations of law are false stand-ins for divine principles of truth and justice that are no longer available to human beings. However, he also suggests that we must have law—we are held...
The Sarah Siddons Audio Files
Romanticism and the Lost Voice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
English actress Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was an international celebrity widely acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines.We know what Siddons looked like—an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures—but what of her famous voice? In lively and engaging prose,...
Strange Science
Investigating the Limits of Knowledge in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, in the Victorian period. Although now relegated to the category of the pseudoscientific, fields like mesmerism and psychical research captured the imagination...
Recording Village Life
A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Recording Village Life presents a close study of over 140 Coptic texts written between 724–756 CE by a single scribe, Aristophanes son of Johannes, of the village Djeme in western Thebes. These texts, which focus primarily on taxation and property concerns, yield a wealth of knowledge about social...
Transforming Gender and Emotion
The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The Butterfly Lovers Story, sometimes called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet, has been enduringly popular in China and Korea. In Transforming Gender and Emotion, Sookja Cho demonstrates why the Butterfly Lovers Story is more than just a popular love story. By unveiling the complexity of themes and messages...
Showing Off, Showing Up
Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The interdisciplinary essays in Showing Off, Showing Up examine acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. Acts of showing highlight those dimensions of performance...
Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties
Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
The 1960s, including the black social movements of the period, are an obstacle to understanding the current conditions of African Americans, argues Clarence Lang. While Americans celebrate the current anniversaries of various black freedom milestones and the election of the first black president,...
Mad Heart Be Brave
Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Born and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century.
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Resident Alien
On Border-crossing and the Undocumented Divine
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Kazim Ali uses a range of subjects—the politics of checkpoints at international borders; difficulties in translation; collaborations between poets and choreographers; and connections between poetry and landscape, or between biotechnology and the human body—to situate the individual human body...
Just Vibrations
The Purpose of Sounding Good
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Modern academic criticism bursts with what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick once termed paranoid readings—interpretative feats that aim to prove a point, persuade an audience, and subtly denigrate anyone who disagrees. Driven by strategies of negation and suspicion, such rhetoric tends to drown out softer-spoken...
by Emily Hodgson Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through...