University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
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Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Forty-five prominent scholars engage in self-critical, state-of-the-art reflection on international studies to stimulate debates about successes and failures and to address the larger question of progress in the discipline. Written especially for the collection, these essays are in hardcover in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies represents a unique collection of original essays by foremost scholars in the field of International Studies. Six essays advocate, critique, or revise Realism, the theoretical paradigm that explains international politics by emphasizing security...
Economic Interdependence and International Conflict
New Perspectives on an Enduring Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The claim that open trade promotes peace has sparked heated debate among scholars and policymakers for centuries. Until recently, however, this claim remained untested and largely unexplored. Economic Interdependence and International Conflict clarifies the state of current knowledge about the effects...
Neither German nor Pole
Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally."
---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta
"James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the...
Changing Places
Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
"Changing Places is an interesting meditation on the varying identities and rights claimed by residents of borderlands, the limits placed on the capacities of nation-states to police their borders and enforce national identities, and the persistence of such contact zones in the past and present....
Lives of Lawyers Revisited
Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly’s work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By...
by Dennis Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of...
The Postwar Transformation of Germany
Democracy, Prosperity and Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
As Germany celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany--the former West Germany-- leading scholars take stock in this volume of the political, social, and economic progress Germany made as it built a democratic political system and a powerful economy, survived...
by Zeev Maoz
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Author Zeev Maoz's unique double perspective, as both an expert on the Israeli security establishment and esteemed scholar...
Imperfect Institutions
Possibilities and Limits of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The emergence of New Institutional Economics toward the end of the twentieth century profoundly changed our ideas about the organization of economic systems and their social and political foundations. Imperfect Institutions explores recent developments in this field and pushes the discussion forward...
Patchwork Nation
Sectionalism and Political Change in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
The unprecedented geographic and socioeconomic mobility of twentieth-century America was accompanied by a major reshuffling of political support in many parts of the country. Yet at the dawn of the new century these local and regional movements are still poorly understood. How can we account for persistent...
The Limits to Union
Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Revised and updated to include the most current information on same-sex marriage, The Limits to Union documents a legal struggle at its moment of greatest historical importance.
"The Limits to Union is a superb book about the complexities of recent political struggles over same-sex marriage....
Cultural Conundrums
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural...
Kin of Another Kind
Transracial Adoption in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"The study of transracial adoption has long been dominated by historians, legal scholars, and social scientists, but with the growth of the lively field of humanistic adoption studies comes a growing understanding of the importance of cultural representations to the social meanings and even the...