Books published by The University of Michigan Press

Informed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of US imperialism, Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester's emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analysing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines.

An examination of eating in its public context in the Roman world

Tracing how the emergence of global capitalism gave rise to the Thirty Years' Crisis