University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Topographies of Class
Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural projects; debates; and representations...
by Niran Abbas
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines."
---Robert Harrison, Stanford University [blurb from review pending permission]
The...
Paul Wellstone
The Life of a Passionate Progressive
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
"Paul Wellstone, we miss you. Few politicians, especially these days, are as willing to stand up and speak the truth as Wellstone was. In this era of flaccid rhetoric and pre-approved sound bites, he had the rare ability to ignite a fire in his audiences. Bill Lofy's excellent biography rekindles...
Surrender
How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the mid-1990s. In this controversial book, the author provides a close look at what...
Mr. Democrat
Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Mr. Democrat tells the story of Jim Farley, Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign manager. As party boss, Farley experienced unprecedented success in the New Deal years. And like his modern counterpart Karl Rove, Farley enjoyed unparalleled access and power. Unlike Rove, however, Farley was instrumental...
Breaking Ground
Pioneering Women Archaeologists
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity. Breaking Ground highlights the remarkable careers of twelve pioneers-a compelling...
Campaign Reform
Insights and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
What is wrong with American political campaigns? How could the campaign process be improved? This volume brings the expertise of leading political scientists to the public debate about campaign reform. These scholars probe the reality behind the conventional wisdom that nasty, vacuous campaigns dominated...
The Great Depression
An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Great Depression was the worst economic catastrophe in modern history. Not only did it cause massive worldwide unemployment, but it also led to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, World War II in Europe, and the tragic deaths of tens of millions of people. This book describes the sequence of...
The Phantom Respondents
Opinion Surveys and Political Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Examines a fundamental problem for opinion polls and those who use them.
by Andrew Carl Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The growth of global finance since 1960 constitutes one of the most important transformations in social relations during the twentieth century. Using historical, statistical, and graphical techniques, State Institutions, Private Incentives, and Global Capital examines three important aspects of this...
The Politics of Community Policing
Rearranging the Power to Punish
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In this in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William T. Lyons, Jr. explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operation of community policing, an increasingly popular method for organizing law enforcement in this country.
Stories about community policing...
Banking on Reform
Political Parties and Central Bank Independence in the Industrial Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the political credibility of an independent central bank to cope with electoral consequences of economic...
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Anthropology, with its dual emphasis on biology and culture, is--or should be--the discipline most suited to the study of the complex interactions between these aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, since the early decades of this century, biological and cultural anthropology have grown distinct, and...
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...