Search results for ""LUP - University of Michigan Press""
LUP - University of Michigan Press Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatras Plantation Belt 18701979
A fascinating ethnographic history that analyses how popular resistance actively molded both the form of colonialism and the social, economic, and political experience of the Javanese laboring communities on Sumatra's plantation borders.
£27.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Silent Guns of Two Octobers
Uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible - craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about.
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Political Judgment Structure and Process
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Learning Legacies Archive to Action through Womens CrossCultural Teaching
Explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Institutions and Innovation
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Making Sense of the Arab State
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Televising Chineseness
Explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Blindness Through the Looking Glass The Performance of Blindness Gender and the Sensory Body
£26.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Paradoxes of Peace German Peace Movements Since 1945
£77.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Performing Democracy International Perspectives on Urban CommunityBased Performance
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Visual Life of Romantic Theater 17801830
Examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book reenvisions traditional approaches to artistic and social production.
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Chasing Greatness
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Troubling State of Indias Democracy
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Pleasure Grounds of Death
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Derecognition of States
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Infrastructures of Security Technologies of Risk Management in Johannesburg
Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and automated information systems, but also the introduction of somewhat bizarre and fly-by-night experimental ‘answers’ to perceived risk and danger.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire
Challenges traditional views of the Ottonian Empire's rulership. Drawing from a broad array of sources including royal diplomas, manuscript illuminations, Ottonian kingship and the administration of justice are investigated using traditional historical and comparative methodologies as well as through the application of modern systems theories.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Media Welfare State
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Dictators Dilemma at the Ballot Box Electoral Manipulation Economic Maneuvering and Political Order in Autocracies
Explores how dictators design elections and what consequences those elections have on political order. The book argues that strong autocrats who can effectively garner popular support through extensive economic distribution become less dependent on coercive electioneering strategies.
£36.14
LUP - University of Michigan Press Blue Ice The Story of Michigan Hockey
£35.26
LUP - University of Michigan Press Performing Commemoration
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Toward a Gameic World
Bridges the gap between Japanese popular culture studies and game studies by encouraging a dialogue centered around Japanese-designed video games and social issues. The book examines four contemporary Japanese video games in terms of how they engage with some of Japan’s biggest social and personal issues.
£17.73
LUP - University of Michigan Press Citizenship in the American Republic
While there are a number of survey textbooks in American politics, Citizenship in the American Republic is based on a fundamental premise that many have contended for the last century - a more informed, participatory citizenry is required for a more effective democratic republic.
£62.34
LUP - University of Michigan Press Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution
These collected essays provide a comparative historical investigation of gender and political culture as they explore eighteenth-century revolutionary movements. The contributors bring a rich variety of sources, methods, and perspectives to the investigation, making this anthology a useful contribution to the study of comparative history.
£23.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Late Sophocles The Heros Evolution in Electra Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus
Only a few plays by Sophocles have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian. Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.
£42.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Contemporary German Editorial Theory
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Catherine A Story
The Thackeray Edition proudly announces two additions to its collection: Catherine and The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The Thackeray Edition is the first full-scale scholarly edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's works to appear in over seventy years, and the only one ever to be based on an examination of manuscripts and relevant printed texts.
£85.55
LUP - University of Michigan Press Laws of the Postcolonial
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Say Word Voices from Hip Hop Theater
£33.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Carrots Sticks and Ethnic Conflict Rethinking Development Assistance
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Disorienting Politics
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Foucault and the Government of Disability
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Medieval Constitution of Liberty
Focuses on the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. The authors provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
£66.20
LUP - University of Michigan Press Cheap Talk
Flips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the centre of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Joshua St Pierre brings together the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap to meet the inhuman needs of capital.
£21.11
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Gourmet Club
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Early Film Culture in Hong Kong Taiwan and Republican China
Features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution.
£54.59
LUP - University of Michigan Press Middle English Dictionary
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Courteous Power Japan and Southeast Asia in the IndoPacific Era
Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era
£28.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press American Dove
Argues that the US is overly reliant on the active use of force and should employ more peaceful foreign policy tools. Rather than relying on loose analogies or common sense, American Dove bases its argument directly on an eclectic mix of academic literature, including realist, liberal, and constructivist theory as well as psychology.
£24.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Mediterranean in Disorder
Highlights and interrogates the link between space and politics and explores the spatial dimensions of insurgencies, conflicts, uprisings, and mobilities in the Mediterranean region. The book offers an innovative scheme to rethink the relation between space and power.
£73.94
LUP - University of Michigan Press Uncanny Creatures Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Hearing Harmony Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era
Offers a listener-based, philosophical-psychological theory of harmonic effects for Anglophone popular music since the 1950s. It begins with chords, their functions and characteristic hierarchies, then identifies the most common and salient harmonic-progression classes, or harmonic schemas.
£32.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Classical Myth An Introduction
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Distinction of Peace A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding
Investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Catherine Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated.
£54.59
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Martians Daughter A Memoir
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LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Workers Became Muslims Immigration Culture and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Study Skills for Success
Major topics covered in the book include: organising informatio; reading and interpreting illustrated information; skills for better reading; research strategies. A list of the many skills taught is provided in the front of the book.
£20.27
LUP - University of Michigan Press Topographies of Class
Explores the question of why Weimar Berlin has such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. This book examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society.
£81.68
