Books published by The University of Michigan Press

A fresh contribution to the literature on jazz

Buss has compiled the stories of 10 lower-income women, told in their own words

Lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. Markus KrIger addresses resistance strategies to extractivism and tracks their success, or lack thereof, through a comparison of peaceful and armed resource conflicts.

Focuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa's self-image and its lived realities. The book argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa's post-apartheid identity are negotiated.

Fatures the voices of scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging the master narrative of the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation.

Explores the factors that shape the Millennial generation's unique political identity, how this identity conditions political choices, and how this cohort's diversity informs political attitudes and beliefs. This book explores politics from a generational perspective, first, and then combines this with other group identities.

Explores the intersection of fire, city, and emperor in ancient Rome, tracing the critical role that urban conflagration played as both reality and metaphor in the politics and literature of the early imperial period.

Embodied performance in South Africa has particular potency because apartheid was so centrally focused on the body. The majority of artists analysed here are people of colour. As the artists imagine new forms, they are helping audiences see the contemporary moment as it is: an important intervention in a country long predicated on denial.

Presents illuminating reflections on the achievements of poet Denise Levertov.

Explores the financial history, social significance, and cultural meanings of the theft, starting in 1933, of assets owned by German Jews. This volume offers a much needed contribution to our understanding of the history of the period and the acts.

A beautiful account of the Peony Garden, the University of Michigan's "living museum," that is sure to delight any reader

Utilizing case studies and extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India.

Integrating interdisciplinary scholarship at the nexus of sound studies and South Asian Studies by questions of nation/nationalism, postcolonialism, cinema, and popular culture in India, Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship offers fresh and sophisticated approaches to the sonic world of the subcontinent.

Tells the story of one of the most toxic places in the United States, and of an epic legal battle waged to clean up the site and hold those responsible accountable. The legal fight over the Stringfellow acid puts has helped shape environmental law, toxic torts, appellate procedure, takings law, and insurance coverage.

Analyses the poetics (rap beats, rhythms, rhymes, verse and song structures) of 6,000 lines of rap lyrics to provide new insights on rap artistry and performance. While most scholarship on rap has focused on its historical and cultural dimensions, this book traces rap's deepest roots and stylistic evolution and contextualizes its complex poetics.

A lively, detailed history of one of the most important ancient Greek cities

As Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin travelled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey.

Cosa, a small Roman town, has been excavated since 1948 by the American Academy in Rome. This new volume presents the surviving sculpture and furniture in marble and other stones and examines their nature and uses.

Through archival research and interview, Nuyorican Feminist Performance examines the contributions of 1970s and '80s performeras and how they challenged the Nuyorican Poets Cafe's gender politics. It also looks at recent artists who have built on that foundation with hip hop performances that speak to contemporary audiences.

Proposes that theatre spectatorship has made a significant contribution to the historical development of a distinctive bourgeois sensibility. This engagingly written treatise on history, class, and spectatorship offers compelling proof of "why theater matters", and demonstrates the importance of examining the question historically.