University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism
Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
In May of 1945, there were more than eight million “displaced persons” (or DPs) in Germany—recently liberated foreign workers, concentration camp prisoners, and prisoners of war from all of Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as eastern Europeans who had fled west before the advancing Red Army. Although...
Franz Kafka
Subversive Dreamer
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious thinking, and anti-authoritarian or anarchist protest against the rising power of bureaucratic modernity....
Printing and Prophecy
Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not...
The Strange and Terrible Visions of Wilhelm Friess
The Paths of Prophecy in Reformation Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Although nearly forgotten today, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was the most popular work of its kind in Germany in the second half of the sixteenth century. While the author “Wilhelm Friess” was a convenient fiction, his text had a long and remarkable history as it moved from the papal...
The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy
Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307)
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and intellectual boundaries have heavily influenced our views of medieval Germany. Historians have looked back to the Middle Ages for the origins of modern European political crises. They concluded that while England and France built nation-states during...
by Nancy G. Siraisi
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi...
Concordance
Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
During the height of the civil rights movement, Blacks were among the most liberal Americans. Since the 1970s, however, increasing representation in national, state, and local government has brought about a more centrist outlook among Black political leaders.
Focusing on the Congressional Black...
International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times
The Need for New International Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
International Capital Flows in Calm and Turbulent Times analyzes the financial crises of the late 1990s and draws attention to the type of lenders and investors that triggered and deepened the crises. It concentrates on institutional investors and banks and provides detailed analysis of the countries...
Markets and Cultural Voices
Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers.
Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to...
Small Change
Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Reformers lament that, with every effort to regulate the sources of campaign funding, candidates creatively circumvent the new legislation. But in fact, political fundraisers don't need to look for loopholes because, as Raymond J. La Raja proves, legislators intentionally design regulations to gain...
Competitiveness Matters
Industry and Economic Performance in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
This book argues, against the current view, that competitiveness--that is, the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector--matters to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and particularly to its long-term capacity to raise the standard of living of its citizens. The book challenges the arguments...
Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt
The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The "glorious house" of the senatorial family of the Flavii Apiones is the best documented economic entity of the Roman Empire during the fifth through seventh centuries, that critical period of transition between the classical world and the Middle Ages. For decades, the rich but fragmentary...
Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism
Understanding BRICS Identity and Behavior Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism, Cameron Thies and Mark Nieman examine the identity and behavior of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) over time in light of academic and policymaker concerns that rising powers may become more aggressive and conflict-prone. The...
Hot Coal, Cold Steel
Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Well after the disintegration of the Communist Party and the Soviet state--and through several years of economic collapse--industrial workers in almost every sector of the former Soviet Union have remained quiescent and the same ineffective and unpopular trade unions still hold a virtual monopoly...