University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Triumph of the Fatherland
German Unification and the Marginalization of Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The East German uprising of 1989 was not a male revolution. Indeed, one of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. As one slogan proclaimed, "Without...
The Art of Economic Persuasion
Positive Incentives and German Economic Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Much has been written about a state's use of the threat of military force or economic sanctions to change the behavior of another state. Less is known about the use of positive measures such as economic assistance and investment as a means of influence. This study looks at the ways in which government...
The German Problem Transformed
Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Does the new, more powerful Germany pose a threat to its neighbors? Does the new German Problem resemble the old? The German Problem Transformed addresses these questions fifty years after the founding of the Federal Republic and ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Many observers have...
Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making
The Publics and the Policies that Presidents Choose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
We expect a president to respond to public opinion as an elected official in a democracy. Indeed, the president needs public support to overcome opposition to his policies in Congress and the bureaucracy. At the same time the president may want to pursue policies that do not have widespread support....
Improper Influence
Campaign Finance Law, Political Interest Groups, and the Problem of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Why is there still so much dissatisfaction with the role of special interest groups in financing American election campaigns, even though no aspect of interest group politics has been so thoroughly regu-lated and constrained? This book argues that part of the answer lies in the laws themselves, which...
Trade Threats, Trade Wars
Bargaining, Retaliation, and American Coercive Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
This study of American trade policy addresses two puzzles associated with the use of aggressive bargaining tactics to open foreign markets. First, as the country with greater power and resources, why has the United States achieved more success in extracting concessions from some of its trading partners...
To Agree or Not to Agree
Leadership, Bargaining, and Arms Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Why were the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union able to negotiate a series of arms control agreements despite the deep and important differences in their interests during the Cold War? Lisa A. Baglione considers a variety of explanations for the successes--and failures--of these negotiations...
Equal Justice in the Balance
America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
"We are in difficult times for the protection of our liberties. Nonetheless, citizens are showing an increased willingness to resist the erosion of the U.S. Constitution. . . . Lawson Mack and Kelly stress the importance of not giving up these fundamental rights and conclude with a message of...
Character Is Destiny
The Autobiography of Alice Salomon
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer,...
Separate Destinations
Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Natives who change residence do not settle in the same places as immigrants. Separate Destinations argues that these distinct mobility patterns, coupled with record levels of immigration from impoverished third world nations, are balkanizing the American electorate. James G. Gimpel examines the consequences...
by Michael Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits Michael Atkinson gives new readings, became famous by taking nothing for granted. Holmes's adventures can be read in new ways, including ways that he...
Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage
From Plautus to Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars...
The Afterlife of Pope Joan
Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Amid the religious tumult of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English scholars, preachers, and dramatists examined, debated, and refashioned tales concerning Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman who, as legend has it, cross-dressed her way to the papacy only to have her imposture exposed when...
An Utterly Dark Spot
Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Slovenian philosopher Miran Bozovic's An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining its various encounters with the gaze. Its range is impressive, moving from the Greek philosophers and theorists of the body (Aristotle, Plato, Hippocratic...