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American History

 

1. 

Adoption in America (2002)
Historical Perspectives
E. Wayne Carp, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-03054-5     $27.95S     Available

 
 

2. 

The Airplane in American Culture (2003)
Dominick A. Pisano, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-09833-0     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06833-3     $25.95T     Available

 
 

3. 

An American Girl, and Her Four Years in a Boys' College (2006)
Olive San Louie Anderson

Cloth     978-0-472-09916-0     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06916-3     $25.95S     Available

 
 

4. 

American Prophet (2005)
The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams
Peter Richardson

Cloth     978-0-472-11524-2     $35.00S     Available

 
 

5. 

Americans and Their Land (2006)
The House Built on Abundance
Anne Mackin

Cloth     978-0-472-11556-3     $29.95S     Available

 
 

6. 

Aspirations for Excellence (2003)
Alexander Jackson Davis and the First Campus Plan for the University of Michigan, 1838
Julia M. Truettner

Cloth     978-0-472-11277-7     $65.00T     Available

 
 

7. 

The Automobile and American Culture (1983)
David L. Lewis and Laurence Goldstein, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-08044-1     $29.95S     Available

 
 

8. 

Bath Massacre (2009)
America's First School Bombing
Arnie Bernstein

Cloth     978-0-472-11606-5     $50.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03346-1     $18.95T     Available

 
 

9. 

Between a River and a Mountain (2005)
The AFL-CIO and the Vietnam War
Edmund F. Wehrle

Cloth     978-0-472-09900-9     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06900-2     $27.95S     Available

 
 

10. 

Beyond Busing (2005)
Reflections on Urban Segregation, the Courts, and Equal Opportunity
Paul R. Dimond

Paper     978-0-472-03129-0     $35.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02149-9          Available

 
 

11. 

Billy Durant (2008)
Creator of General Motors
Lawrence R. Gustin

Paper     978-0-472-03302-7     $18.95T     Available

 
 

12. 

Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW (2007)
New Edition
August Meier and Elliott Rudwick

Paper     978-0-472-03219-8     $21.95S     Available

 
 

13. 

Buckeye Legends (1994)
Folktales and Lore from Ohio
Michael Jay Katz

Paper     978-0-472-06558-5     $18.95T     Available

 
 

14. 

Building the Cold War Consensus (1998)
The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51
Benjamin O. Fordham

Cloth     978-0-472-10887-9     $80.00S     Available

 
 

15. 

Category 5 (2005)
The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane
Ernest Zebrowski & Judith A. Howard

Cloth     978-0-472-11525-9     $27.95T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03240-2     $19.95T     Available

 
 

16. 

The Changing American Mind (1993)
How and Why American Public Opinion Changed Between 1960 and 1988
William G. Mayer

Cloth     978-0-472-09498-1     $72.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06498-4     $40.00S     Available

 
 

17. 

Chic Ironic Bitterness (2007)
R. Jay Magill, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-11621-8     $25.95T     Available

 
 

18. 

Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (2009)
Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez, editors

Cloth     978-0-472-11698-0     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03352-2     $32.50S     Available

 
 

19. 

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women (2001)
Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years
Julie Novkov

Cloth     978-0-472-11198-5     $75.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02286-1          Available

 
 

20. 

A Creation of His Own (1999)
Tappan's Detroit Observatory
Patricia S. Whitesell

Cloth     978-0-472-59006-3     $58.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-59007-0     $24.95T     Available

 
 

21. 

Cross Purposes (2009)
Pierce v. Society of Sisters and the Struggle over Compulsory Public Education
Paula Abrams

Cloth     978-0-472-11700-0     $65.00S     Available

 
 

22. 

The Darker Side of the Renaissance (2003)
Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization, 2nd Edition
Walter D. Mignolo

Paper     978-0-472-08931-4     $27.95S     Available

 
 

23. 

Deadly Dust (2006)
Silicosis and the On-Going Struggle to Protect Workers' Health
New and expanded edition
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Paper     978-0-472-03110-8     $27.95S     Available

 
 

24. 

The Death Penalty in the Nineties (1991)
An Examination of the Modern System of Capital Punishment
Welsh S. White

Paper     978-0-472-06461-8     $35.00S     Available

 
 

25. 

Defending Diversity (2004)
Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan
Patricia Gurin, Jeffrey S. Lehman, and Earl Lewis, with Eric L. Dey, Gerald Gurin, and Sylvia Hurtado

Cloth     978-0-472-11307-1     $24.95S     Available

 
 

26. 

Devils and Rebels (2008)
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Larry J. Reynolds

Cloth     978-0-472-11669-0     $60.00S     Available

 
 

27. 

Drawing Conclusions on Henry Ford (2001)
Rudolph Alvarado and Sonya Alvarado

Cloth     978-0-472-09766-1     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06766-4     $23.95T     Available

 
 

28. 

The Echoes of L'Arbre Croche (2009)
Donald A. Johnston

Paper     978-0-472-03396-6     $16.95T     Available

 
 

29. 

Ellery's Protest (2007)
How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer
Stephen D. Solomon

Cloth     978-0-472-10837-4     $29.95S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03345-4     $24.95T     Available

 
 

30. 

Envisioning Asia
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Jeanette Roan

Cloth     978-0-472-07083-1     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05083-3     $26.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

31. 

Equal Justice in the Balance (2004)
America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat
Raneta Lawson Mack and Michael J. Kelly

Cloth     978-0-472-11394-1     $35.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02375-2          Available

 
 

32. 

Faith in the City (2007)
Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit
Angela D. Dillard

Cloth     978-0-472-11462-7     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03207-5     $25.95T     Available

 
 

33. 

Formative Years (2002)
Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000
Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-08980-2     $29.95S     Available

 
 

34. 

Frank Murphy (1975)
The Detroit Years
Sidney Fine

Cloth     978-0-472-32949-6     $65.00S     Available

 
 

35. 

From Liberty to Democracy (2002)
The Transformation of American Government
Randall G. Holcombe

Cloth     978-0-472-11290-6     $85.00S     Available

 
 

36. 

Gates of Freedom (2004)
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Eugenia C. DeLamotte

Cloth     978-0-472-09867-5     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06867-8     $25.95S     Available

 
 

37. 

A Good Quarrel (2009)
America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court
Timothy R. Johnson and Jerry Goldman, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-11636-2     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03326-3     $24.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02200-7          Available

 
 

38. 

Grassroots at the Gateway (2009)
Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
Clarence Lang

Cloth     978-0-472-07065-7     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05065-9     $28.95S     Available

 
 

39. 

Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea (2009)
Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson

Cloth     978-0-472-11572-3     $65.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03370-6     $26.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02199-4          Available

 
 

40. 

Henry Ford and Grass-roots America (1972)
Reynold M. Wik

Paper     978-0-472-06193-8     $22.95T     Available

 
 

41. 

A History of Ann Arbor (1991)
Jonathan Marwil

Cloth     978-0-472-09463-9     $27.95T     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06463-2     $21.95T     Available

 
 

42. 

The Indians of Hungry Hollow (2004)
Bill Dunlop, Ottawa, and Marcia Fountain-Blacklidge, Chippewa

Paper     978-0-472-08653-5     $19.95T     Available

 
 

43. 

Is History Fiction? (2005)
Anne Curthoys and John Docker

Paper     978-0-472-03154-2     $27.95S     Available

 
 

44. 

Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds (2006)
Universities, Leadership, and the Development of the American State
Mark R. Nemec

Cloth     978-0-472-09912-2     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06912-5     $27.95S     Available

 
 

45. 

Jews and Gentiles in Early America (2005)
1654-1800
William Pencak

Cloth     978-0-472-11454-2     $29.95S     Available

 
 

46. 

"Jiffy": A Family Tradition, Mixing Business and Old-Fashioned Values (2008)
Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

Cloth     978-0-9802326-0-8     $24.95T     Available

 
 

47. 

A Journey to the East (2004)
Li Gui's A New Account of a Trip Around the Globe
Charles Desnoyers

Cloth     978-0-472-11354-5     $85.00S     Available

 
 

48. 

The Land between the Rivers (2004)
Thomas Nuttall's Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819
Russell M. Lawson

Cloth     978-0-472-11411-5     $27.00S     Available

 
 

49. 

Launching Global Health
The Caribbean Odyssey of the Rockefeller Foundation
Steven Palmer

Cloth     978-0-472-07089-3     $70.00S     Forthcoming

 
 

50. 

Lines of Activity (2000)
Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity
Shannon Jackson

Paper     978-0-472-08791-4     $29.95S     Available

 
 

51. 

Louie Louie (2004)
The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'n Roll Song; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, and a Cast of Millions; and Introducing for the First Time Anywhere, the Actual Dirty Lyrics
Dave Marsh

Paper     978-0-472-03023-1     $18.95T     Available

 
 

52. 

The Making of an American Senate (1996)
Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841
Elaine K. Swift

Cloth     978-0-472-10702-5     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-08871-3     $28.95S     Available

 
 

53. 

The Making of The University of Michigan 1817-1992 (1994)
175th Anniversary Edition
Howard H. Peckham

Cloth     978-0-472-09594-0     $44.95S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06594-3     $17.95S     Available

 
 

54. 

Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings
Landscapes of the Heart and Mind
Hemalata C. Dandekar

Cloth     978-0-472-07105-0     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05105-2     $27.95T     Forthcoming

 
 

55. 

Michigan's Capitol (1995)
Construction and Restoration
William Seale

Paper     978-0-472-06573-8     $32.50T     Available

 
 

56. 

Mirage (2007)
Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Cynthia Barnett

Paper     978-0-472-03303-4     $18.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02145-1          Available

 
 

57. 

Mr. Democrat (2006)
Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics
Daniel Scroop

Cloth     978-0-472-09930-6     $29.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02150-5          Available

 
 

58. 

The Nature of True Virtue (1960)
Jonathan Edwards

Paper     978-0-472-06037-5     $16.95S     Available

 
 

59. 

Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1964)
Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington
August Meier

Paper     978-0-472-06118-1     $29.95S     Available

 
 

60. 

The New Imperial Presidency (2005)
Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate
Andrew Rudalevige

Paper     978-0-472-03192-4     $21.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02138-3          Available

 
 

61. 

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan (2008)
The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries
Grant Brown, Jr.

Cloth     978-0-472-07049-7     $70.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-05049-9     $24.95T     Available

 
 

62. 

Not Just Any Medical School (1999)
The Science, Practice, and Teaching of Medicine at the University of Michigan, 1850-1941
Horace W. Davenport

Cloth     978-0-472-11076-6     $80.00S     Available

 
 

63. 

Old Roads of the Midwest (1997)
George N. Cantor

Paper     978-0-472-08288-9     $17.95T     Available

 
 

64. 

Open the Door (2002)
The Life and Music of Betty Carter
William R. Bauer

Paper     978-0-472-06791-6     $18.95T     Available

 
 

65. 

Passing Performances (1998)
Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History
Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra, Editors

Cloth     978-0-472-09681-7     $75.00S     Available

 
 

66. 

A People Numerous and Armed (1990)
Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence
Revised Edition
John Shy

Paper     978-0-472-06431-1     $22.95S     Available

 
 

67. 

Performing America (1999)
Cultural Nationalism in American Theater
Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-08792-1     $35.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02220-5          Available

 
 

68. 

Philadelphia Freedom (2008)
Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
David Kairys

Cloth     978-0-472-11638-6     $75.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03310-2     $24.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02136-9          Available

 
 

69. 

Point Betsie (2008)
Lightkeeping and Lifesaving on Northeastern Lake Michigan
Jonathan P. Hawley

Paper     978-0-472-03318-8     $30.00T     Available

 
 

70. 

The Politics of Purity (1999)
Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy
Clayton A. Coppin and Jack High

Cloth     978-0-472-10984-5     $80.00S     Available

 
 

71. 

The Price of Racial Reconciliation (2008)
Ronald W. Walters

Paper     978-0-472-03380-5     $24.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02170-3          Available

 
 

72. 

Pushing the Envelope (1998)
The American Aircraft Industry
Donald M. Pattillo

Paper     978-0-472-08671-9     $40.00S     Available

 
 

73. 

Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform (2003)
Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording, Editors

Paper     978-0-472-06831-9     $35.00S     Available

 
 

74. 

Racial Union (2008)
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954
Julie Novkov

Cloth     978-0-472-09885-9     $85.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06885-2     $28.95S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02287-8          Available

 
 

75. 

Ralph J. Bunche (1996)
Selected Speeches and Writings
Charles P. Henry, Editor

Cloth     978-0-472-10589-2     $65.00S     Available

 
 

76. 

Rebels in Law (1998)
Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers
J. Clay Smith, Jr., Editor

Paper     978-0-472-08646-7     $25.95S     Available

 
 

77. 

The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System (1999)
Detroit, 1907-81, Second Edition
Jeffrey Mirel

Paper     978-0-472-08649-8     $35.00S     Available

 
 

78. 

Risk Culture
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg

Cloth     978-0-472-07094-7     $70.00S     Forthcoming
Paper     978-0-472-05094-9     $28.95S     Forthcoming

 
 

79. 

Rogue Scholar (2003)
The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff
Richard W. Bailey

Cloth     978-0-472-11337-8     $27.00T     Available

 
 

80. 

Ruin and Recovery (2001)
Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader
Dave Dempsey

Paper     978-0-472-06779-4     $19.95T     Available

 
 

81. 

Schoolbook Nation (2003)
Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
Joseph Moreau

Paper     978-0-472-03053-8     $27.95S     Available

 
 

82. 

See Dick and Jen Run (2006)
The 2006 Michigan Race for Governor
Tim Skubick

Cloth     978-0-472-11607-2     $29.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02214-4          Available

 
 

83. 

Sit-Down (1969)
The General Motors Strike of 1936-1937
Sidney Fine

Cloth     978-0-472-32948-9     $65.00S     Available

 
 

84. 

Skin Deep, Spirit Strong (2002)
The Black Female Body in American Culture
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-06707-7     $32.50T     Available

 
 

85. 

Sleeping Bear (2005)
Yesterday and Today
Revised Edition
George Weeks

Paper     978-0-472-03031-6     $27.95T     Available

 
 

86. 

Soapy (2005)
A Biography of G. Mennen Williams
1st Edition
Thomas J. Noer

Cloth     978-0-472-11508-2     $35.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03186-3     $22.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02197-0          Available

 
 

87. 

Taking Trade to the Streets (2001)
The Lost History of Public Efforts to Shape Globalization
Susan Ariel Aaronson

Cloth     978-0-472-11212-8     $50.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-08867-6     $25.95S     Available

 
 

88. 

The Great Justices, 1941-54 (2006)
Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers
William Domnarski

Cloth     978-0-472-11536-5     $35.00S     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02158-1          Available

 
 

89. 

Their Sisters' Keepers (1981)
Women's Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930
Estelle B. Freedman

Paper     978-0-472-08052-6     $25.95S     Available

 
 

90. 

These Days of Large Things (2007)
The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Michael Tavel Clarke

Cloth     978-0-472-09962-7     $75.00S     Available

 
 

91. 

Three's a Crowd (2005)
The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and Republican Resurgence
Ronald B. Rapoport and Walter J. Stone

Cloth     978-0-472-11453-5     $29.95S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03099-6     $24.95S     Available

 
 

92. 

Time and Chance (1998)
Gerald Ford's Appointment With History
James Cannon

Paper     978-0-472-08482-1     $24.95T     Available

 
 

93. 

To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face (2009)
Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement
Robert H. Churchill

Cloth     978-0-472-11682-9     $35.00T     Available

 
 

94. 

Transcribing Class and Gender (2009)
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Carole Srole

Cloth     978-0-472-07055-8     $75.00S     Forthcoming

 
 

95. 

Traveling Through Time (2005)
A Guide to Michigan's Historical Markers
Revised Edition
Laura Rose Ashlee, Editor

Paper     978-0-472-03066-8     $22.95T     Available

 
 

96. 

Understanding Economic Recovery in the 1930s (2003)
Endogenous Propagation in the Great Depression
Frank G. Steindl

Cloth     978-0-472-11348-4     $75.00S     Available

 
 

97. 

Union Power and American Democracy (1984)
The UAW and the Democratic Party, 1935-72
Dudley W. Buffa

Cloth     978-0-472-10042-2     $60.00S     Available

 
 

98. 

Unsportsmanlike Conduct (1995)
Exploiting College Athletes
Walter Byers

Cloth     978-0-472-10666-0     $34.50S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-08442-5     $27.95S     Available

 
 

99. 

The Vernor's Story
From Gnomes to Now
Lawrence L. Rouch

Paper     978-0-472-06697-1     $14.95T     Available

 
 

100. 

Vintage Views of the Charlevoix-Petoskey Region (2005)
M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson

Cloth     978-0-472-11504-4     $45.00T     Available

 
 

101. 

When Evil Came to Good Hart (2008)
Mardi Link

Cloth     978-0-472-11666-9     $60.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-03315-7     $22.95T     Available
Ebook Formats     978-0-472-02196-3          Available

 
 

102. 

Where Women Run (2006)
Gender and Party in the American States
Kira Sanbonmatsu

Cloth     978-0-472-09934-4     $80.00S     Available
Paper     978-0-472-06934-7     $26.95S     Available

 
 

103. 

William G. Milliken (2006)
Michigan's Passionate Moderate
Dave Dempsey

Paper     978-0-472-03363-8     $22.95T     Available

 
 

104. 

With All Deliberate Speed (2004)
The Life of Philip Elman
Norman I. Silber

Cloth     978-0-472-11425-2     $29.95S     Available

 
 

105. 

"Without Blare of Trumpets" (1995)
Walter Drew, The National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-1957
Sidney Fine

Cloth     978-0-472-10576-2     $70.00S     Available

 
 

106. 

World War II Front Line Nurse (2008)
Mildred A. MacGregor

Paper     978-0-472-03331-7     $26.95T     Available

 
 

107. 

Young Sidney Hook (2005)
Marxist and Pragmatist
Christopher Phelps

Paper     978-0-472-03058-3     $27.95S     Available

 
 
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