University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Laws of the Roman People
Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable. Callie Williamson's book,The Law of the Roman People, finds that the key to Rome's survival and growth...
Geopolitical Economy
The South Korean FTA Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Geopolitical Economy examines the significance and nature of free trade agreements (FTAs), the primary policy tool through which modern nations seek access to international markets and promote economic growth. The book focuses specifically on how South Korea, the world’s leader in the number and...
by David Schaps
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The invention of coinage was a conceptual revolution, not a technological one. Only with the invention of Greek coinage does the concept "money" clearly materialize in history. Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society, bringing with it rationalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This collection of essays examines the relationship between pain, death, and the law and addresses the question of how the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts. The empirical focus of these essays enables the reader to delve into both the history and the theoretical complexities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The essays look at the consequences that legal practice has on the lives of its practitioners as well as on the individual legal subject and on the shape of shared identities. These essays challenge liberal and communitarian notions of what it means to live the law.
In the first of the essays,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Dissent in Dangerous Times presents essays by six distinguished scholars, who provide their own unique views on the interplay of loyalty, patriotism, and dissent.
While dissent has played a central role in our national history and in the American cultural imagination, it is usually dangerous...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
It has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law" is not self-evident.
This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts...
Lifting the Fog of Peace
How Americans Learned to Fight Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Lifting the Fog of Peace puts the U.S. military’s frustrating experiences in Iraq into context and reveals how the military was able to turn the tide during the so-called surge in 2007–8.“Lifting the Fog of Peace is a captivating study of an agile and adaptive military evolving through the chaos...
Anatomizing Civil War
Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Imperial Latin epic has seen a renaissance of scholarly interest. This book illuminates the work of the poet Lucan, a contemporary of the emperor Nero who as nephew of the imperial adviser Seneca moved in the upper echelons of Neronian society. This young and maverick poet, whom Nero commanded to...
The Metanarrative of Blindness
A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of twentieth-century works in English a perspective appreciative...
A Family of Gods
The Worship of the Imperial Family in the Latin West
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Roman politics and religion were inherently linked as the Romans attempted to explain the world and their place within it. As Roman territory expanded and power became consolidated into the hands of one man, people throughout the empire sought to define their relationship with the emperor by granting...
Between the Middle East and the Americas
The Cultural Politics of Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora traces the production and circulation of discourses about "the Middle East" across various cultural sites, against the historical backdrop of cross-Atlantic Mahjar flows. The book highlights the fraught and ambivalent...
Archives, Documentation, and Institutions of Social Memory
Essays from the Sawyer Seminar
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
As sites of documentary preservation rooted in various national and social contexts, artifacts of culture, and places of uncovering, archives provide tangible evidence of memory for individuals, communities, and states, as well as defining memory institutionally within prevailing political systems...
by James M. Harding
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Placing the disciplines of performance studies and surveillance studies in a timely critical dialogue, Performance, Transparency, and the Cultures of Surveillance not only theorizes how surveillance performs but also how the technologies and corresponding cultures of surveillance alter the performance...