Books published by The University of Michigan Press

Why does the United States need European allies, and why is it getting more difficult for those allies to partner with Washington? This book addresses the economic, demographic, political, and military trends that are fundamentally upending the ability and willingness of European allies to work with Washington.

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.

Explores changing German memories of World War II, analysing the construction of narratives in the postwar period, including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied bombing were long overdue, showing that the bombing war was in fact a central strand of German memory and identity.

San Jose Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, which was occupied for a thousand years before the city of Monte Alban was founded. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail more than 35 public buildings.

Examines proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx's negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change.

Can you change the world through song? This appealing idea has long been the aim of singers who are part of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses. By taking a close look at these choruses and their mission, Heather MacLachlan unpacks the fascinating historical and cultural dynamics behind groups that seek to change society for the better.

Presents a richly annotated, comprehensive collection of examples of etymological wordplay in Vergil's Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics. An extensive introduction on the etymologizing of Vergil and his poetic forerunners places the poet in historical context and analyses the form and style of his wordplay.

Zapotec is one of the major hieroglyphic writing systems of ancient Mesoamerica. This volume explains the origins and spread of Zapotec writing, the role of Zapotec writing in the changing political agendas of the region, and the decline of hieroglyphic writing in the Valley of Oaxaca.

Traditional accounts of the 1787 Constitutional Convention gloss over the complicated coalition politics that produced important compromises. Founding Factions helps us understand the nature of shifting majorities and how they created the American government.

Offers an explicit and comprehensive consideration of voice as a complex of rethinking aspects of the history of philosophy through issues of power, as well as contemporary issues that include and involve the desire for and the dynamics of legitimacy, for individuals and communities.

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.

The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound. Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces an ultra-conservative backlash.

Conceptualizes the foreign policies of Europe - defined as the European Union and its member states - toward the states in its immediate southern 'neighbourhood' as semi-imperial attempts to turn these states into Europe's southern buffer zone, or borderlands.

A reflection on the power of the performing arts to engage and enrich communities

Earle Brown (1926-2002) was a crucial part of the seminal group of experimental composers known as the New York School, and his work intersects in fascinating ways with that of his colleagues John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff. This book seeks to expand our view of Brown's work, addressing his practices as a painter and composer as well as his collaborations with visual artists.

For more than five centuries, the Plaza Mayor (or Zocalo) in Mexico City has been the site of performances for a public spectatorship. Performance in the Zocalo examines the ways that this city square has achieved symbolic significance over the centuries, and how national, ethnic, and racial identity has been performed there.