Bøker utgitt av The University of Michigan Press

On May 18, 1927, in a horrific conflagration of dynamite and blood, a madman forever changed a small Michigan town. This title takes readers back to that fateful day, when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school, killing thirty-eight children and six adults.

Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.

Although partisan polarization gets much of the attention in political science scholarship about Congress, members of Congress represent diverse communities around the country. Home Field Advantage demonstrates the importance of this understudied element of American congressional elections and representation.

Challenges conventional wisdom about how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and over 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation.

Revisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures - ranging from Los Angeles hoboes to men who have sex with other men in St Louis bathrooms, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California - produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly.

Traces the main discourses associated with normalcy in world politics. Gezim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert focus on how dominant states and international organisations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states.

Oral communication is key to students' classroom success and a skill that is highly valued in both academic and professional contexts. This collection gathers TESOL scholars and practitioners in exploring the theories, principles, and pedagogical practices that shape and help innovate the teaching of oral communication in higher education.

A collection on teaching argumentative writing, offering multiple vantage points drawn from the contributors' own experiences. The volume distinguishes between 'learning to argue' and 'arguing to learn' theories and practices.

Traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and US theatre, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the US context during the Exclusion Era.

Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.

Examines the complex association of the sense of smell and the supernatural in classical antiquity

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferences. Steel extends existing theories to create a broader framework for thinking about gender and voting behaviour to provide more analytical purchase in understanding gender and voters' preferences.

Highlights the contradictory and competing impulses that ran through the project to democratize postwar society and casts a critical eye toward the internal biases that shaped the model of Western democracy. In so doing, contributions probe critical questions that we continue to grapple with today.

This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori's work has received scant attention in American letters.

Focuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa's self-image and its lived realities. The book argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa's post-apartheid identity are negotiated.

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EU

Explains why some insurgencies collapse after a military defeat while under other circumstances insurgents are able to maintain influence, rebuild strength, and ultimately defeat the government. The author argues that ultimate victory in civil wars rests on the size of the coalition of social groups established by each side.

Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, contributors demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behaviour and fight to change social injustices.

Tells the story of how early US commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research.