University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Idlewild
The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and...
by Ole Rudolf Holsti
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
"A substantial contribution to understanding the role of public opinion and the news media during the Iraq War. Equally impressive, it effectively puts the domestic context of U.S. policy in historical perspective, making the book useful to historians as well as to political scientists."
---Ralph...
Constituting Workers, Protecting Women
Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
Constitutional considerations of protective laws for women were the analytical battlefield on which the legal community reworked the balance between private liberty and the state's authority to regulate. Julie Novkov focuses on the importance of gender as an analytical category for the legal system.
During...
Bodies in Commotion
Disability and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
"A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions...
The Changing Face of Representation
The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
As the number of women in the U.S. Senate grows, so does the number of citizens represented by women senators. At the same time, gender remains a key factor in senators’ communications to constituents as well as in news media portrayals of senators. Focusing on 32 male and female senators during...
Foreign Policy and Congress
An International Relations Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
In the traditional view of foreign policy making in the United States, the President is considered the primary authority and Congress is seen as playing a subsidiary role. Marie T. Henehan looks at the effects of events in the international system on both the content of foreign policy and what actions...
Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
An in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya
Based on sixteen years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use...
Poker
The Parody of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Poker is an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon with major social, cultural, and political implications, and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism investigates the game of poker as a cultural expression of significance not unlike art, literature, film, or music. Tracing the history of poker and comparing...
The North Country Trail
The Best Walks, Hikes, and Backpacking Trips on America’s Longest National Scenic Trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The North Country Trail is the longest of America’s eleven congressionally designated National Scenic Trails. Winding through seven states—New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota—the NCT’s 4,600 miles attract more than one million visitors annually. These...
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies
Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
"James F. Wilson uncovers fascinating new material on the Harlem Renaissance, shedding light on the oft-forgotten gay and lesbian contributions to the era's creativity and Civil Rights. Extremely well researched, compellingly written, and highly informative."
---David Krasner, author of...
Textual Awareness
A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's...
Joining the Conversation
Dialogues by Renaissance Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Avoiding the male-authored model of competing orations, French and Italian women of the Renaissance framed their dialogues as informal conversations, as letters with friends that in turn became epistles to a wider audience, and even sometimes as dramas. No other study to date has provided thorough,...
by Mark I. Lichbach
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Advocates of rational choice theory in political science have been perceived by their critics as attempting to establish an intellectual hegemony in contemporary social science, to the detriment of alternative methods of research. The debate has gained a nonacademic audience, hitting the pages of...
The Challenge of Hegemony
Grand Strategy, Trade, and Domestic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The Challenge of Hegemony explains how international forces subtly influence foreign, economic, and security policies of declining world powers. Using detail-rich case studies, this sweeping study integrates domestic and systemic policy to explain these countries' grand strategies. The book concludes...