University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Learned Collector
Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures. In The Learned Collector, Lea M. Stirling shows how the literary education received by all aristocrats, pagan...
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance
Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice...
by Samir Chopra, Laurence F. White
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“An extraordinarily good synthesis from an amazing range of philosophical, legal, and technological sources . . . the book will appeal to legal academics and students, lawyers involved in e-commerce and cyberspace legal issues, technologists, moral philosophers, and intelligent lay readers interested...
Sensual Relations
Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating...
The Color of Representation
Congressional Behavior and Black Interests
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The central domestic issue in the United States over the long history of this nation has been the place of the people of color in American society. One aspect of this debate is how African-Americans are represented in Congress. Kenny J. Whitby examines congressional responsiveness to black interests...
America Beyond Black and White
How Immigrants and Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome the Racial Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
“This book is both powerful and important. Powerful for the testimony it provides from Americans of many different (and even mixed races) about their experiences. And important because there is a racial revolution underway that will upend race as we know it during the twenty-first century.”
—John...
Racial Union
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In November 2001, the state of Alabama opened a referendum on its long-standing constitutional prohibition against interracial marriage. A bill on the state ballot offered the opportunity to relegate the state's antimiscegenation law to the dustbin of history. The measure passed, but the margin was...
Blues, How Do You Do?
Paul Oliver and the Transatlantic Story of the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Recent revisionist scholarship has argued that representations by white “outsider” observers of black American music have distorted historical truths about how the blues came to be. While these scholarly arguments have generated an interesting debate concerning how the music has been framed and...
The International Relations of Middle-earth
Learning from The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Based on their successful undergraduate course at the University of Southern California, Abigail E. Ruane and Patrick James provide an introduction to International Relations using J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastically popular trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Because Tolkien's major themes---such as good...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
"Sarat and Kearns . . . have edited a truly marvelous work on the impact of the law on daily life and vice versa. . . . the essays are all exemplary, thought- provoking works worthy of a long, contemplative read by scholars, lawyers, and judges alike." --Choice
"The subject of...
Vanishing Moments
Class and American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Vanishing Moments analyzes how various American authors have reified class through their writing, from the first influx of industrialism in the 1850s to the end of the Great Depression in the early 1940s. Eric Schocket uses this history to document America’s long engagement with the problem of class...
Disarmed Democracies
Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
In Disarmed Democracies: Domestic Institutions and the Use of Force, David P. Auerswald examines how the structure of domestic political institutions affects whether democracies use force or make threats during international disputes. Auerswald argues that the behavior of democracies in interstate...
The Urban Voter
Group Conflict and Mayoral Voting Behavior in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Karen Kaufmann's groundbreaking study shows that perceptions of interracial conflict can cause voters in local elections to focus on race, rather than party attachments or political ideologies. Using public opinion data to examine mayoral elections in New York and Los Angeles over the past 35 years,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
In The Pioneers of Judicial Behavior, prominent political scientists critically examine the contributions to the field of public law of the pioneering scholars of judicial behavior: C. Hermann Pritchett, Glendon Schubert, S. Sidney Ulmer, Harold J. Spaeth, Joseph Tanenhaus, Beverly Blair Cook, Walter...