Paul Clemens: 4 books

A New York Times Notable BookA powerfully candid memoir about growing up white in Detroit and the conflicted point of view it produced. Raised in Detroit during the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, Paul Clemens saw his family growing steadily isolated from its surroundings: white in a predominately...

An elegy—angry, funny, and powerfully detailed—about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life. How does a country dismantle a century’s worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America’s...

In the 1940s, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college for men. Today, it is a major public research university, a member of the Big Ten and of the prestigious Association of American Universities. In Rutgers since 1945, historian Paul G. E. Clemens chronicles this remarkable transition, with emphasis...

Eine historische Betrachtung des Verhältnisses zwischen „Orient" und „Okzident", beides weit mehr als Raumkategorien, verweist auf ein enges Beziehungsgeflecht, das sich über die Jahrhunderte aufbaute. Wie die hier versammelten Beiträge mit einem besonderen Schwerpunkt auf die Nachbarn Habsburgermonarchie...