History: New Titles http://www.press.umich.edu/rss/newHistory.xml New History Books en-us ump.webmaster@umich.edu Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism | Tony Perucci http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3365636 Two key performances by Paul Robeson shed light on the Cold War era Architecture and Modern Literature | by David Spurr http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=4350173 Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era Ramesses III: The Life and Times of Egypt's Last Hero | Edited by Eric H. Cline and David O'Connor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2254254 The first comprehensive treatment of Ramesses III in English by top scholars in the field The Lion's Ear: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music | by Anthony M. Cummings http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2662733 The first book on Pope Leo X's musical patronage in Renaissance Italy Parlor Ponds: The Cultural Work of the American Home Aquarium, 1850 - 1970 | by Judith Hamera http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1070693 The first in-depth study of the history of the home aquarium Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany | by Christian S. Davis http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3080712 An exploration of anti-Semitic behaviors in the German empire in the pre-WWI period Community Identity and Archaeology: Dynamic Communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan | by Naoise Mac Sweeney http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3080464 Exploring the notion of community identity in an archaeological context Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 | by Jonathan Green http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3209249 Examining possible connections between prophecy and changes in media in the century after Gutenberg James Baldwin: America and Beyond | by Edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1168369 An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields Open Wound: The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont | by Jason Karlawish http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3849699 A fictionalized case of medical ethics in Northern Michigan Between National Socialism and Soviet Communism: Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany | by Anna Holian http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1146201 An interdisciplinary study of refugee communities in post--WWII Germany The Earliest Romans: A Character Sketch | by Ramsay MacMullen http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=4072573 An inviting exploration of Rome's founding centuries Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia | by JoEllen McNergney Vinyard http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=269227 An unsettling look at the history of right-wing political movements in Michigan Faithful Unto Death | by Becky Thacker http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3889940 Arsenic shatters a family in 19th-century Michigan Elly Peterson: "Mother" of the Moderates | by Sara Fitzgerald, with a foreword by Haynes Johnson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3152225 The life and political history of a woman who broke gender barriers in the Republican party---and later threw her support to a Democrat Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression | by Petra Dierkes-Thrun http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1979616 A study of Oscar Wilde's Salome in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction | by Melissa M. Littlefield http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=3091709 A cultural history of deception detection from science to science fiction Dueling Students: Conflict, Masculinity, and Politics in German Universities, 1890-1914 | by Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2665215 Student life and political perspectives at Wilhelmine universities The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture | by Tamara Ketabgian http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2526592 Expanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature | Edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Kenneth Kidd http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=363408 Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s | by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco, editors; Foreword by Linda Nochlin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=997198 An international picture of New Woman in film and photography The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels | by Suzanne Daly http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2199660 A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels German Literature on the Middle East: Discourses and Practices, 1000-1989 | by Nina Berman http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2510033 An investigation of Germany and the Middle East through literary sources, in the context of social, economic, and political practices Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline | by Edward Murphy, David William Cohen, Chandra D. Bhimull, Fernando Coronil, Monica Eileen Patterson, and Julie Skurski, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=302815 A volume at the crossroads of History and Anthropology The Golem Returns: From German Romantic Literature to Global Jewish Culture, 1808-2008 | by Cathy S. Gelbin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1734730 Exploring the role of the golem in the formation of modern Jewish culture Lost Eagles: One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars | by Blaine Pardoe http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1842201 The first biography of the man who created the way we look for airmen downed in combat behind enemy lines When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use | by John Carey and Martin C. J. Elton http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=364002 An in-depth study of the fascinating relationship between new media and everyday life Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics | by Brent J. Steele http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=591457 How do nations create and maintain images of power? Building Romanticism: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Britain | by Nicole Reynolds http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1321927 A study of the importance of architecture in Romanticism The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature | edited by Rachel Ablow http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=364448 The first collection of criticism devoted to the problem of reading in Victorian literature Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire: New and expanded edition | by D. S. Potter and D. J. Mattingly, Editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2288273 A lively survey for the nonspecialist, with new essays and a new appendix of translated documents Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind | by Hemalata C. Dandekar http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1076615 A window into the roles and construction of Michigan family farms Citizen Rauh: An American Liberal's Life in Law and Politics | by Michael E. Parrish http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1189267 The first published biography of a key figure in 20th century American liberalism Murder Scenes: Normality, Deviance, and Criminal Violence in Weimar Berlin | by Sace Elder http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1177008 Examining the social effects of criminal investigation in Weimar-era Berlin Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America | by Joseph Fichtelberg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1459955 Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days Pompeii's Living Statues: Ancient Roman Lives Stolen from Death | by Eugene Dwyer http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1268484 An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption Launching Global Health: The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation | by Steven Palmer http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=172838 An in-depth look at the Rockefeller Foundation's earliest ventures in international health Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism | by Jeanette Roan http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327161 Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability | by Edward Wheatley http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=915892 Early attitudes toward blindness in France and England, and the light those responses shed on contemporary attitudes toward disability Changing Places: Society, Culture, and Territory in the Saxon-Bohemian Borderlands, 1870-1946 | by Caitlin E. Murdock http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1271292 An intriguing study of a fluid cross-border area over several decades. Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities | by David R. Castillo http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1125451 Exploring the historical roots of horror in the modern age. A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League | by Lily E. Hirsch http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=353335 Examines the complicated history of a Jewish cultural organization supported by Nazi Germany. Martin Luther King | by Godfrey Hodgson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=2779407 Martin Luther King allows the charisma and power of King's personality to shine through, showing in gripping narrative style exactly how one man helped America to progress toward its truest ideals. Hodgson's extensive research and detail help paint an accurate, complex portrait of one of America's most important leaders. Transcribing Class and Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices | by Carole Srole http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=232232 Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status. Cross Purposes: Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education | by Paula Abrams http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=192896 Do parents have the right to determine how their children should be educated? The Echoes of L'Arbre Croche | by Donald A. Johnston http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=1053995 Mystery, intrigue, romance, and history in a novel set on the Great Lakes. Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina | by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=923684 A collection of essays that documents the ways in which educational institutions and the arts community responded to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 | by Clarence Lang http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354425 Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement. The Price of Racial Reconciliation | by Ronald W. Walters http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=135227 NEW IN PAPER! Presents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for Reparations in the United States. Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico | by Patricia A. Ybarra http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=316831 An unprecedented reading of Mexican history through the lens of performance. After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe | by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=354212 An investigation of the concept of "race" in post-Nazi Germany. Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist | Fran Leeper Buss, Editor http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=10549 A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced. The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System | by Jacob Soll http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=243021 A fascinating inquiry into Jean-Baptiste Colbert's collection of knowledge. Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea | by Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=180934 Does the gun lobby threaten the democratic institutions safeguarding individual liberty in America? A Good Quarrel: America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court | Timothy R. Johnson and Jerry Goldman, Editors http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=243263 The country's top legal reporters comment on and analyze some of the most important oral arguments in recent court history. The Playing Fields of Eton: Equality and Excellence in Modern Meritocracy | by Mika LaVaque-Manty http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=186189 Can equality and excellence coexist in a democratic society? Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany | by Dennis Sweeney http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327445 An examination of the relationship between labor relations and public life in the Saar river valley that traces the wider political-ideological changes of the era. Bath Massacre : America's First School Bombing | by Arnie Bernstein http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=283846 A gripping account of America's first---and largest---school mass murder. To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face : Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement | by Robert H. Churchill http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327258 Did a long-standing and libertarian understanding of the American Revolution create the perfect climate for the militia movement in the United States? Livy's Written Rome | by Mary Jaeger http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=15056 The Roman view of history through the eyes of Livy. Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany | by Katrin Sieg http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17012 An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust. The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture | by Jennifer M. Kapczynski http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=327424 A fascinating study of disease as a trope in German debates about the Nazi past. The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Greece | by Jenifer Neils http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=335391 An authoritative and fully illustrated introduction to the world of ancient Greece. Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics | by Larry J. Reynolds http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=163182 Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author. Politics in the Pews: The Political Mobilization of Black Churches | by Eric L. McDaniel http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=322916 Examines the factors underlying the political mobilization of Black churches. Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland | by James E. Bjork http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=217738 A unique study of the importance of religious identification in a multi-national region . Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin | by Sabine Hake http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=332792 The first interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural architecture of Weimar Berlin. Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer | by David Kairys http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297518 The gripping story of the life and education of one of America's most innovative and idealistic lawyers. Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan: The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries | by Grant Brown, Jr. http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=344992 An illustrated book about the visionary, risky, and influential business of transporting loaded railroad cars across Lake Michigan. Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 | by George Selgin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=307069 Private Enterprise and the Foundation of Modern Coinage. The Street Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Analytical Egalitarianism | edited by Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=212207 Leading economists explore the premise that all social interactions are exchanges among inherently equal human beings. When Evil Came to Good Hart | by Mardi Link http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=318045 A new look into an old story---the cold-case file of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968. Point Betsie: Lightkeeping and Lifesaving on Northeastern Lake Michigan | by Jonathan P. Hawley http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=349781 An illustrated history of the famed Point Betsie Lighthouse. "Jiffy": A Family Tradition, Mixing Business and Old-Fashioned Values | by Cynthia Furlong Reynolds | Chelsea Milling Company http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=360870 The story of the internationally renowned Chelsea Milling Company---a trailblazer in the packaged-food industry. Billy Durant: Creator of General Motors | by Lawrence R. Gustin http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=334291 A new edition of the classic book on the flamboyant genius who helped lead America into the automobile age. The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution | by Mobo Gao | Pluto Press http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=343263 Shows that the Mao era was beneficial for most Chinese citizens. Mark One or More: Civil Rights in Multiracial America | by Kim M. Williams http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=17441 NEW IN PAPER! The little-known story of the struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape. Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past | edited by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Paul B. Jaskot http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=286865 A compelling exploration of the myriad ways in which German cities have confronted their Nazi pasts. Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics | edited by Katherine Pence and Paul Betts http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=217730 Explores the ways in which modernity shaped the relationship between socialist state and society in East Germany.