University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation
Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Since the 1970s, quotas for female political candidates in elections have proliferated worldwide. Beyond increasing the numbers of women in high-level elected bodies and, thereby, women’s political representation, advocates claim that quotas foster gender-equal participation in democracy and create...
The Politics of Intimacy
Rethinking the End-of-Life Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
Debates on the end-of-life controversy are complex because they seem to highjack national and cultural traditions. Where previous books have focused on ideological grounds, The Politics of Intimacy explores dying as the site where policies are negotiated and implemented. Intimacy comprises the emotional...
The Pop Palimpsest
Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques (sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists...
Intents and Purposes
Philosophy and the Aesthetics of Improvisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
How do we define improvised music? What is the relationship of highly improvised performances to the work they are performances of? How do we decide what are the important parts of an improvised musical work? In Intents and Purposes, Eric Lewis uses a series of case studies to challenge assumptions...
Haunted City
Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local...
Virtuous Necessity
Conduct Literature and the Making of the Virtuous Woman in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
While many scholars find the early modern triad of virtues for women—silence, chastity, and obedience—to be straightforward and nonnegotiable, Jessica C. Murphy demonstrates that these virtues were by no means as direct and inflexible as they might seem. Drawing on the literature of the period—from...
Nimrod
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Chadian writer Nimrod—philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist—is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod’s writing has been translated into English until now. Introductory material by Frieda Ekotto provides context for...
by Lisa Mignone
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The Aventine—one of Rome’s canonical seven hills—has long been identified as the city’s plebeian district, which housed the lower orders of society and served as the political headquarters, religious citadel, and social bastion of those seeking radical reform of the Republican constitution....
Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare
Norms and Practices during the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violated previous international agreements; they were targeted explicitly at civilians. A deviant form of...
by Roger Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal democracies—the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—over the past 15 years. He examines each nation’s development and implementation of counterterrorism law, specifically in the areas of information-gathering,...
by Gill Steel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question. The authors analyze women’s values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at...
by Dana R. Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Treatment of Error offers a realistic, well-reasoned account of what teachers of multilingual writers need to know about error and how to put what they know to use. As in the first edition, Ferris again persuasively addresses the fundamental error treatment questions that plague novice and expert...
by John Donahue
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
On its initial publication, The Roman Community at Table during the Principate broke new ground with its approach to the integral place of feasting in ancient Roman culture and the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Empire. John F. Donahue’s...
Community Identity and Archaeology
Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Community Identity and Archaeology explores the concept of community identity and its application in archaeology, using the modern Turkish sites of Aphrodisias and Beycesultan as case studies to illustrate the formation and dissolution of communities over time. The concept of the community is vital...