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126. Cover image for 'Music Is My Life'
Louis Armstrong, Autobiography, and American Jazz
Daniel Stein
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Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Music Is My Life"
127. Cover image for 'Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex'
Race, Madness, Activism
Tony Perucci
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Ebook 2012 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex"
128. Cover image for 'American Socialist Triptych'
The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Upton Sinclair, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Mark W. Van Wienen
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "American Socialist Triptych"
129. Cover image for 'Imagining the Forest'
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
John Knott
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Imagining the Forest"
130. Cover image for 'The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey'
Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Arts
John Griffiths Pedley
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Life and Work of Francis Willey Kelsey"
131. Cover image for 'Faith in Paper'
The Ethnohistory and Litigation of Upper Great Lakes Indian Treaties
Charles E. Cleland
A comprehensive reference on the litigation of Indian treaty rights in the upper Great Lakes region
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Faith in Paper"
132. Cover image for 'James Baldwin'
America and Beyond
Edited by Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "James Baldwin"
133. Cover image for 'Right in Michigan's Grassroots'
From the KKK to the Michigan Militia
JoEllen McNergney Vinyard
An unsettling look at the history of right-wing political movements in Michigan
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Right in Michigan's Grassroots"
134. Cover image for 'It'
Joseph Roach
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "It"
135. Cover image for 'The President Electric'
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance

How Reagan's immersion in an electronic media culture of performance shaped his political career

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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The President Electric"
136. Cover image for 'Mad at School'
Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Margaret Price
Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Mad at School"
137. Cover image for 'Kin of Another Kind'
Transracial Adoption in American Literature
Cynthia Callahan

Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver

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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Kin of Another Kind"
138. Cover image for 'No Safe Spaces'
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Angela C. Pao
Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "No Safe Spaces"
139. Cover image for 'Embodying Black Experience'
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
Harvey Young
How the history of the diasporic black body in American art, athleticism, and performance resonates in daily life
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Embodying Black Experience"
140. Cover image for 'I Don't Sound Like Nobody'
Remaking Music in 1950s America
Albin J. Zak III

A definitive study of the most important decade in post-World War II popular music history

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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "I Don't Sound Like Nobody"
141. Cover image for 'Envisioning Asia'
On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism
Jeanette Roan
Film provides a window into American culture and its attitudes toward Asia of the first half of the 20th century
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Envisioning Asia"
142. Cover image for 'Soul Music'
Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Joel Rudinow
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Soul Music"
143. Cover image for 'To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face'
Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement
Robert H. Churchill

Did a long-standing and libertarian understanding of the American Revolution create the perfect climate for the militia movement in the United States?

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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face"
144. Cover image for 'The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry'
Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett

How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference?

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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry"
145. Cover image for 'Risk Culture'
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg

Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days

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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Risk Culture"
146. Cover image for 'Mark One or More'
Civil Rights in Multiracial America
Kim M. Williams
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
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Mark One or More"
147. Cover image for 'Transcribing Class and Gender'
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Carole Srole

Examines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status

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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Transcribing Class and Gender"
148. Cover image for 'The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual'
U.S. Army Field Manual No. 3-07
The University of Michigan Press Edition
The United States Army
A milestone in Army doctrine
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The U.S. Army Stability Operations Field Manual"
149. Cover image for 'Arthur Miller's America'
Theater and Culture in a Time of Change
Enoch Brater, Editor
International critics explore Arthur Miller's longstanding commitment to forging a uniquely American theater
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Arthur Miller's America"
150. Cover image for 'The Theater Will Rock'
A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig
Elizabeth L. Wollman

Chronicles the rock musical's artistic and financial blockbusters---and bombs---from 1960 to the present

Format Publication year Price Status Purchasing option
Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Theater Will Rock"
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The University of Michigan Press offers many titles as electronic books in EPUB, PDF, Kindle, and Audiobook formats.

Our EPUB and PDFs may be read using free Adobe Digital Editions software. Digital Editions is available for PC, Mac, major mobile platforms, and many e-reader devices. Visit the Adobe Digital Editions Supported Ebook Devices page for a complete list of e-reader devices that are compatible with the software and their FAQ page for other questions about the software.

Available Ebook reading systems vary widely in their support for accessibility features. For EPUB, visit EPUB Test for accessibility support information for specific platforms. Contact us if you have a question about the best reading system for your needs at umpress.accessibility@umich.edu.

Our Ebooks are currently offered under a single-user license, which means that your Ebook can be accessed by using one Adobe ID. Any computer authorized to this Adobe ID will be able to open the file. Learn more at the Adobe ID and Membership FAQ page.

UMP is pleased to provide customers an easy, convenient, and environmentally-friendly way to buy and read great books. For more information on how to order Ebooks, visit our Ordering page.


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