University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Projecting History
German Nonfiction Cinema, 1967-2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2009
The intersection between social, historical, and political developments in Germany and the emergence of a nonfiction mode of film production
Sensational Devotion
Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Sensational Devotion examines contemporary Passion plays, biblical theme parks, Holy Land recreations, creationist museums, and megachurches in order to understand how they serve their evangelical believer-users while also shaping larger cultural and national dialogues. Jill Stevenson explores how...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Assesses the impact of intellectual and political movements of the late twentieth century on law and legal theory
Researching Black Communities
A Methodological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Experts from a range of disciplines offer practical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations. Readers will learn how to choose appropriate methods—longitudinal studies, national surveys, quantitative analysis, personal interviews, and other qualitative...
Rival Claims
Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
In this study of struggles for ethnoterritorial autonomy, Bethany Lacina explains regional elites’ decision whether or not to fight for autonomy, and the central government’s response to this decision. In India, the prime minister’s respective electoral ties to separate, rival regional interests...
The Presidential Expectations Gap
Public Attitudes Concerning the Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
For decades, public expectations of U.S. presidents have become increasingly excessive and unreasonable. Despite much anecdotal evidence, few scholars have attempted to test the expectations gap thesis empirically. This is the first systematic study to prove the existence of the expectations gap and...
Mrs. Shipley's Ghost
The Right to Travel and Terrorist Watchlists
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Today, when a single person can turn an airplane into a guided missile, no one objects to rigorous security before flying. But can the state simply declare some people too dangerous to travel, ever and anywhere? Does the Constitution protect a fundamental right to travel? Should the mode of travel...
Assessment Myths
Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for assessment in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. Like others in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.
The book opens with an introduction...
Forging the World
Strategic Narratives and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Forging the World brings together leading scholars in International Relations (IR) and Communication Studies to investigate how, when, and why strategic narratives shape the structure, politics, and policies of the global system. Put simply, strategic narratives are tools that political actors employ...
German Colonialism Revisited
African, Asian, and Oceanic Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship...
Gender, Intersections, and Institutions
Intersectional Groups Building Alliances and Gaining Voice in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Germany serves as a case study of when and how members of intersectional groups—individuals belonging to two or more disadvantaged social categories—capture the attention of policymakers, and what happens when they do. This edited volume identifies three venues through which intersectional groups...
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation
America's Japan and Japan's Performing Arts
Cultural Mobility and Exchange in New York, 1952-2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
America’s Japan and Japan’s Performing Arts studies the images and myths that have shaped the reception of Japan-related theater, music, and dance in the United States since the 1950s. Soon after World War II, visits by Japanese performing artists to the United States emerged as a significant...
The Necropastoral
Poetry, Media, Occults
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, poet Joyelle McSweeney presents an ecopoetics and a theory of Art that reflect such biological principles as degradation, proliferation, contamination, and decay. In these ambitious, bustling essays, McSweeney resituates poetry as a medium amid media;...