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When Detroit Played the Numbers

Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City

Felicia B. George

How Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities despite scandal.

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Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350775
$94.99
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Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350768
$34.99
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Available March 2024
ISBN: 9780814350782

Movie-Made Los Angeles

John Trafton

The proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood.

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Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814347775
$94.99
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Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814347768
$36.99
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Available October 2023
ISBN: 9780814347782

I Hope This Reaches You

An American Soldier’s Account of World War I

Hilary Connor

A medic’s account of life during World War I.

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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814347072
$32.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814347089

Charles Godfrey Leland and His Magical Tales

Edited by Jack Zipes

A lively selection of Charles Godfrey Leland’s unique nineteenth-century tales.

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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347867
$82.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347850
$32.99
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Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814347874

The Israeli-American Connection

Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945

Michael Brown

An examination of the ways in which the American experience influenced some of the major Jewish leaders during and between the world wars.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344590
$24.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344583

Independent Man

The Life of Senator James Couzens

Harry Barnard
With an Introduction by David L. Lewis

The only book-length biography of a major Michigan figure who served as Detroit’s mayor and contributed to the early success of the Ford Motor Company.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814343968
$24.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814335871

The Iron Hunter

Chase S. Osborn
With an Introduction by Robert M. Warner

Autobiography of Michigan’s controversial governor from the Upper Peninsula.

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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814343951
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814335857

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights"

Michigan, 1948-1968

Sidney Fine

"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people.

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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343289
$22.99
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Published: December 2017
ISBN: 9780814343296
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Detroit 1967

Origins, Impacts, Legacies

Edited by Joel Stone
With a Foreword by Thomas J. Sugrue

Examines relationships between black and white Detroit residents through the lens of 1967, fifty years later.

Hardback
Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814343036
$29.99
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Published: June 2017
ISBN: 9780814343043

From Tinseltown to Bordertown

Los Angeles on Film

Celestino Deleyto

Close readings that look for "the real Los Angeles" in a selection of contemporary movies.

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Published: April 2017
ISBN: 9780814339855
$36.99
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Published: April 2017
ISBN: 9780814339862

Luke Karamazov

Conrad Hilberry
Foreword by Emanuel Tanay, M.D.

A vivd and detailed portrait of serial murder brothers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl.

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Published: August 2016
ISBN: 9780814342886
$26.99
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Published: August 2016
ISBN: 9780814318560
$24.99
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A Fluid Frontier

Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland

Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker
With a foreword by David W. Blight

New research on the long, shared struggle for freedom by people of African descent in the Detroit River borderland from a uniquely bi-national perspective.

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Published: February 2016
ISBN: 9780814339596
$36.99
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Published: February 2016
ISBN: 9780814339602

Transnational Traditions

New Perspectives on American Jewish History

Edited by Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn

Demonstrates the variety, complexity, and ramifications of the contacts and connections between Jews in America and their co-religionists abroad.

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Published: November 2014
ISBN: 9780814338612
$32.99
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Published: November 2014
ISBN: 9780814338629
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The Art of Memory

Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan

Thomas R. Dilley

Traces the history of the cemetery in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America, with a specific discussion of the art, architecture, and history of the cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Published: September 2014
ISBN: 9780814340196
$39.99
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Published: September 2014
ISBN: 9780814340202

Images from the Arsenal of Democracy

Charles K. Hyde

A photographic history of the American automobile industry’s World War II defense production.

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Published: March 2014
ISBN: 9780814339817
$39.99
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Published: March 2014
ISBN: 9780814339824

Father Abraham's Children

Michigan Episodes in the Civil War

Frank B. Woodford
New Foreword by Arthur M. Woodford

Collects anecdotes, legends, stories, and reminiscences of Civil War veterans from a wide variety of written sources and personal interviews, in paperback for the first time.

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Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780814339572
$26.99
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Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780814339589

Cinema and Community

Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917

Moya Luckett

Investigates how progressivism structured many aspects of understudied era of cinema.

Paperback
Published: December 2013
ISBN: 9780814337257
$34.99
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Published: December 2013
ISBN: 9780814337264
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"Old Slow Town"

Detroit during the Civil War

Paul Taylor

Details Detroit's tumultuous social, political, and military history during the Civil War.

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Published: October 2013
ISBN: 9780814336038
$19.99
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Published: October 2013
ISBN: 9780814339305
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Arsenal of Democracy

The American Automobile Industry in World War II

Charles K. Hyde

Examines the role of the American automobile industry in producing vehicles, weapons, and other war products during World War II.

Hardback
Published: October 2013
ISBN: 9780814339510
$39.99
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Published: October 2013
ISBN: 9780814339527

The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s

A Challenge and a Promise

Jayne Morris-Crowther

Follows the work of Detroit women's organizations as they dealt with issues related to voting, industrialization, and immigration.

Hardback
Published: March 2013
ISBN: 9780814338155
$46.99
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Published: March 2013
ISBN: 9780814338162

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