University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by Becky Thacker
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Benzonia, Michigan, 1894: a sleepy Congregationalist community, dedicated to the education of hardworking and virtuous young people of both sexes and all races. Anna Spencer Thacker is the daughter of missionaries, a faithful wife, and mother of five, pious to a fault. She is suddenly stricken with...
Baghdad Bulletin
Dispatches on the American Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"David Enders has a stunning independent streak and the courage to trust his own perceptions as he reports from outside the bubble Americans have created for themselves in Iraq."
---Joe Sacco, author of Safe Area Gorazde
"Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts...
After Django
Making Jazz in Postwar France
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
How did French musicians and critics interpret jazz—that quintessentially American music—in the mid-twentieth century? How far did players reshape what they learned from records and visitors into more local jazz forms, and how did the music figure in those angry debates that so often suffused...
by Mardi Link
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical...
by Ric Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins...
Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup
A Spirited Black Woman in a White World
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn’t just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations—she has been singularly...
Music Is My Life
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural...
Dark Matter
Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Dark Mattermaps the invisible dimension of theater whose effects are felt everywhere in performance. Examining phenomena such as hallucination, offstage character, offstage action, sexuality, masking, technology, and trauma, Andrew Sofer engagingly illuminates the invisible in different periods of...
Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China
Kaleidoscopic Histories
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as...
Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko
Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886*–1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903–*1991), gleaned from the diaries of Edward Seidensticker...
The Neuroscientific Turn
Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The Neuroscientific Turn brings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of...
Brandishing the First Amendment
Commercial Expression in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Tamara R. Piety argues that increasingly expansive First Amendment protections for commercial speech imperil public health, safety, and welfare; the reliability of commercial and consumer information; the stability of financial markets; and the global environment. Using evidence from public relations...
Politics Over Process
Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Although the U.S. Constitution requires that the House of Representatives and the Senate pass legislation in identical form before it can be sent to the president for final approval, the process of resolving differences between the chambers has received surprisingly little scholarly attention. Hong...
Financing Medicaid
Federalism and the Growth of America's Health Care Safety Net
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Conventional wisdom holds that programs for the poor are vulnerable to instability and retrenchment. Medicaid, however, has grown into the nation’s largest intergovernmental grant program, accounting for nearly half of all federal funding to state and local governments. Medicaid’s generous open-ended...