Search results for ""LUP - University of Michigan Press""

In a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-Hop culture’s resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Hodges Persley asks us to consider who has the right to claim Hip-Hop’s blackness when blackness itself offers both consent and resistance to transgressive and inspiring acts of performance.

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Offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world.

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A model for supporting students who are new to English and may have experienced a disruption in their schooling. The practices presented emerge from the belief that education for students with limited or interrupted formal education should not be remedial but should build on the students’ experiences and existing areas of knowledge.

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From the author of Winesburg, Ohio, an autobiography of Midwestern life and culture by one of the leading figures of 20th-century American letters.

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Situates the glam rock phenomenon historically and examines it as a set of performance strategies. This book explores the ways in which glam rock, while celebrating the showmanship of 1950s rock and roll, began to undermine rock's adherence to the ideology of authenticity in the late 1960s.

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Exposes the ambiguities of modern federalism, offering a generous treatise on the modern salience of the term. This book provides an analysis of a fundamental concept in politics and law.

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Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill, experts on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender public policy advocacy, combine an accessible review of social science research with analyses of school practices. In addition, portraits of LGBT youth and their experiences with discrimination at school bring human faces to the issues the authors discuss.

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An explanation of the domestic consequences of recent changes in the global economy.

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Isle Royale National Park - with its lush northern landscape, wolves, and moose - is an ideal laboratory for wildlife biologists. This book provides an account of the relationship that exists between the wolf and the moose on the island. Illustrated with over 100 photographs, it reveals the nature of this animal.

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An illustrated and user-friendly reference book about edible mushrooms that describes in detail how to identify each species, where and when to find them, and how to cook them in creative and delicious recipes. It presents mushrooms as the most-often eaten varieties, including a description of the button mushrooms found in the grocery store.

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The first complete biography of G. Mennen ""Soapy"" Williams, former governor of Michigan.

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Presents an account of how language has been employed in the theater not simply as a means of communication, but as a stylistic device essential to theater's function. This book investigates the various 'levels' of language and their respective social implications.

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In this lavishly illustrated volume stemming from his Thomas Spencer Jerome Lectures at the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome, distinguished architectural historian John Pinto offers case studies of important architectural and archaeological sites in and around Rome, such as the Trevi Fountain and the ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Paestum.

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Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theatre - the aesthetics of ruins.

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Provides a historical and conceptual account of events in order to detail the key conditions, factors, and events that gave rise to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party conflict in Turkey

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A full-scale examination of the amazing range of works resulting from the creative collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin.

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Features interdisciplinary research about aggregate wealth levels, portfolio compositions, and asset-ownership patterns. This collection discusses several conceptual issues, including gender and class; the political, historical, and socio-economic contexts and consequences of wealth inequalities; intra-group inequality; and more.

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The common understanding is that honour belongs to a bygone era, whereas civil society belongs to the future and modern society. Heikki Lempa argues that honour was not gone or even in decline between 1700 and 1914, and that civil society was not new but had long roots that stretched into the Middle Ages.

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How does mourning emerge to reshape Japanese visual culture? Textures of Mourning addresses this question by examining engrossing literary and visual portrayals of death and its aftermath from The Tale of Genji and its adaptations.

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Builds on work on coalition formation to propose a theory that works across countries and over time. The evidence comes from case studies of coalition formation in Austria and the Netherlands, where far-right parties have been excluded when they could have been included and included when the mainstream right had other options.

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From state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime TV to Facebook and political rumours, this book focuses on concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption.

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Argues that representations of land and landscape perform metaphorical labour in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter’s analysis contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment.

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Provides a political companion to new trade theories in economics, questioning cleavage-based explanations of trade politics, demonstrating the underappreciated importance of activists, suggesting the limits of globalization, and providing in-depth examination of previously ignored trade negotiations.

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Investigates the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. The book tracks the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity by following groups of professionals - funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers - and asking how they coped with stigmatization.

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Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature to explore the fraught distinctiveness of human bodyminds and the deliberate ways they were constructed in early modernity as able, and not.

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Provides the first collection of essays dedicated to LGBTQ issues in children's literature. Bringing together significant essays and introducing new work, this will serve both as a scholarly reference and as a textbook for students of children's studies, gender/queer studies, and related disciplines such as English, history, sociology, and education.

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Investigating almost 10,000 works of fiction in the world's largest collection of mass-digitized historical newspapers (the National Library of Australia's Trove database), A World of Fiction reconceptualizes how fiction traveled globally, and was received and understood locally, in the 19th century.

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The poetry of Yosano Akiko covers all the many and varied aspects of the experience of love - from early romantic encounters between the lover and beloved to the intimate pleasures of mutual infatuation and then true love.

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Analyses the creation of different sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) from a comparative political economy perspective, arguing that different state-society structures at the sectoral level are the drivers for SWF variation. Juergen Braunstein focuses on the early formation period of SWFs, a critical but little understood area.

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Presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II’s Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko’s totalitarian Zaire. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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These papyri provide the first secure information, in concrete detail, on the purposes and the effects of the imperial tax reform under Diocletian at the end of the 3rd century and the beginning of the 4th. They also throw much new light on the 4th-century practice of “public liturgy” - the administrative device of making up the lack of money in the state treasury by compulsory labor service.

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Digs deeply into previously undiscovered archival evidence to examine Piero della Francesca's yet unstudied earliest works and their connections to his putative formation in Florence. James Banker's historical investigation integrates social and art history to provide a rich and informative cultural context for della Francesca's development.

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