University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Envisioning Asia
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Whereas some other scholars read selected films mainly to illustrate political arguments, Roan never loses sight of the particularities of film as a distinctive cultural form and practice. Her drive to see 'cinema as a mechanism of American orientalism' results in not just a textual analysis...
Teaching U.S.-Educated Multilingual Writers
Pedagogical Practices from and for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This volume was born to address the lack of classroom-oriented scholarship regarding U.S.-educated multilingual writers. Unlike prior volumes about U.S.-educated multilinguals, this book focuses solely on pedagogy--from classroom activities and writing assignments to course curricula and pedagogical...
Teaching about Religions
A Democratic Approach for Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
"This provocative and timely book challenges Americans to rethink what it means to take democracy and religious freedom seriously in public education. Emile Lester takes the reader beyond culture war conflicts rooted in religious divisions and offers bold, new solutions for addressing our differences...
The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman World
A Study of Social History and the Brothel
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in the ancient world. Close examination of the social and legal position of Roman meretrices and Greek hetairai have enriched our understanding of ancient sexual relationships and the status of women in these...
Paradigms and Sand Castles
Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Paradigms and Sand Castles demonstrates the relationship between thoughtful research design and the collection of persuasive evidence in support of theory. It teaches the craft of research through interesting and carefully selected examples from the field of comparative development studies.
Barbara Geddes is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Growth Triumphant
The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Taking a longer view than most literature on economic development, Richard A. Easterlin stresses the enormous contrast between the collective experience of the last half century in both developed and developing countries and what has gone before. An economic historian and demographer, the author writes...
The Theater Will Rock
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
The tumultuous decade of the 1960s in America gave birth to many new ideas and forms of expression, among them the rock musical. An unlikely offspring of the performing arts, the rock musical appeared when two highly distinctive and American art forms joined onstage in New York City. The Theater Will...
American Prophet
The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A long-overdue book on the brilliant life and career of one of our greatest public intellectuals, American Prophet will introduce Carey McWilliams to a new generation of readers.
Peter Richardson's absorbing and elegantly paced book reveals a figure thoroughly engaged with the issues of his...
How Like an Angel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2009
"How Like an Angel is a powerfully imagined, lyrically wrought novel, overflowing with the senses. Jack Driscoll is a marvel."
---Rick Bass
"How Like an Angel is a lyrical, lonely ode to fatherhood, an aria in words that looks forward and backward at once. Jack Driscoll is a...
Bath Massacre
America's First School Bombing
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and...
Utopia in Performance
Finding Hope at the Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold...
Hazel Scott
The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from Café Society to Hollywood to HUAC
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
"Hazel Scott was an important figure in the later part of the Black renaissance onward. Even in an era where there was limited mainstream recognition of Black Stars, Hazel Scott's talent stood out and she is still fondly remembered by a large segment of the community. I am pleased to see her...
Counterculture Kaleidoscope
Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Forty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has come to be synonymous with rebellion...