Wayne State University Press: 405 books
These Men Have Seen Hard Service
The First Michigan Sharpshooters in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
These Men Have Seen Hard Service recounts the fascinating history of one outstanding Michigan regiment during the Civil War.
John Donne and the Protestant Reformation
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2003
This collection of thirteen essays by an international group of scholars focuses on the impact of the Protestant Reformation on Donne’s life, theology, poetry, and prose.
by Stephen Sharot
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Provides sociological analyses of religious developments and identities in both historical and contemporary Jewish communities.
American Jewry and the Holocaust
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as...
Arab Detroit
From Margin to Mainstream
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Metropolitan Detroit is home to one of the largest, most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East, yet the complex world Arabic-speaking immigrants have created there is barely visible on the landscape of ethnic America. In this volume, Nabeel Abraham and Andrew Shryock bring together the work...
Harry Bertoia, Printmaker
Monotypes and Other Monographics
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The seventy-nine monotypes in this catalogue represent the principal styles and themes that emerged not only in Harry Bertoia's printmaking, but in his sculpture as well. June Kompass Nelson, author of Harry Bertoia, Sculptor, analyzes the graphic works and places them in the context of Bertoia's...
by Ken Feil
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The highest-rated network program during its first three seasons, comedy-variety show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In (NBC, 1968–1973) remains an often overlooked and underrated innovator of American television history. Audiences of all kinds—old and young, square and hip, black and white, straight...
The Heart Is a Mirror
The Sephardic Folktale
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these Sephardic groups are Judeo-Spanish folktales, stories...
Appetites and Anxieties
Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Cinema is a mosaic of memorable food scenes. Detectives drink alone. Gangsters talk with their mouths full. Families around the world argue at dinner. Food documentaries challenge popular consumption-centered visions. In Appetites and Anxieties: Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation, authors...
Mothering Daughters
Novels and the Politics of Family Romance, Frances Burney to Jane Austen
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2003
The rise of the novel and of the ideal nuclear family was no mere coincidence, argues Susan C. Greenfield in this fascinating look at the construction of modern maternity.
Channeling Wonder
Fairy Tales on Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic...
To Light a Fire
20 Years with the InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
The InsideOut Literary Arts Project (iO) began in 1995 in five Detroit high schools, with weekly classroom visits by a writer-in-residence, the publication of a literary journal for each school, and the mission of encouraging students to use poetry to “think broadly, create bravely, and share their...
by Anthony Butts
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.
Relief after Hardship
The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand...