University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Standing Your Ground
Territorial Disputes and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Through an examination of 129 territorial disputes between 1950 and 1990, Paul Huth presents a new theoretical approach for analyzing the foreign policy behavior of states, one that integrates insights from traditional realist as well as domestic political approaches to the study of foreign policy....
Handbook of War Studies III
The Intrastate Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2009
Handbook of War Studies III is a follow-up to Handbook of War Studies I (1993) and II (2000). This new volume collects original work from leading international relations scholars on domestic strife, ethnic conflict, genocide, and other timely topics. Special attention is given to civil war, which...
Putting Faith in Partnerships
Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Putting Faith in Partnerships addresses a major conceptual change in American domestic policy, begun by Reagan and now fully realized by the Bush administration: the shift of responsibility for social services from the federal government to states and communities.
In this groundbreaking study...
Turning the Legislative Thumbscrew
Minority Rights and Procedural Change in Legislative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The use of filibusters in the U.S. Senate by small numbers of members to prevent legislative action apparently desired by a majority of the members--as evidenced by the battles over civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s--is legendary. Similar situations have existed in other legislative...
The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830
Tradition and Change in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The movement from tradition to modernity engulfed all of the Jewish communities in the West, but hitherto historians have concentrated on the intellectual revolution in Germany by Moses Mendelssohn in the second half of the eighteenth century as the decisive event in the origins of Jewish modernity....
Grassroots at the Gateway
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Clarence...
Litigating in the Shadow of Death
Defense Attorneys in Capital Cases
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
"Anyone who cares about capital punishment should read this compelling, lucid account of the obstacles defense attorneys face and the strategies they adopt."
--John Parry, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
"With its compelling narratives of cases, strategies, and ethical...
I Want to Be Ready
Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
"Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of...
Inside/Outside
A Physician's Journey with Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
To doctors, cancer means cells growing out of control; to patients, cancer means a life spinning out of control. Janet R. Gilsdorf, who writes with quiet but devastating honesty about her experience with breast cancer, offers an eye-opening glimpse, through her unique dual perspective as physician...
Research Confidential
Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
"We all know that the actual process of empirical research is a messy, complicated business that at best only approximates the models we impart to students. Research Confidential pulls back the curtain on this process, laying bare the sordid details of the research process, but doing so in a...
Czecho/Slovakia
Ethnic Conflict, Constitutional Fissure, Negotiated Breakup
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
As the clock struck midnight on December 31, 1992, Czechoslovakia, the only genuine democracy in post-World War I Central-Eastern Europe, broke up into two independent successor states. This book explores the failed search for a postcommunist constitution and it records in a lively style a singular...
Dying Inside
The HIV/AIDS Ward at Limestone Prison
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"The HIV+ men incarcerated in Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 were put there to be forgotten. Not only do Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Carla Crowder bring these men to life, Fleury-Steiner and Crowder also insist on placing these men in the middle of critical conversations about health policy, mass...
Is Social Security Broke?
A Cartoon Guide to the Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
A funny, smart, and engaging book on Social Security? You bet! Let Bill and Betty Boomer, their parents Ed and Ethel Elderly, and the young married Steve and Sue Sprout take you through the thickets of this thorny issue. You will come to understand why people are so worried about Social Security,...
by Francis Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Francis M. Dunn's Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece examines the widespread social and cultural disorientation experienced by Athenians in a period that witnessed the revolution of 411 B.C.E. and the military misadventures in 413 and 404---a disturbance as powerful as that described in Alvin...