A distinctive urban publisher since 1941

Wayne State University Press

0 items
i

History

Featured

Pages

Carrying a Big Schtick

Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

Jewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century.

Printed Paper Cased
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349632
$99.99
Paperback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349625
$39.99
eBOOK
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814349649

Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties

Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Philip P. Mason

A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.

Paperback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351048
$25.99
Hardback
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814325834
$39.99
eBOOK
Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351055

The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

Edited by Natalia Aleksiun, Raphael Utz, and Zofia Wóycicka

Printed Paper Cased
Available December 2023
ISBN: 9780814349502
$94.99
Paperback
Available December 2023
ISBN: 9780814350836
$36.99
eBOOK
Available December 2023
ISBN: 9780814349519
AWARD
WINNER

The Dodge Brothers

The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy

Charles K. Hyde

Biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company.

Paperback
Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814332474
$24.99
Hardback
Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814332467
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814337806

Paper Valley

The Fight for the Fox River Cleanup

P. David Allen II and Susan Campbell

The compelling true story of a hard-fought environmental win, set in motion by a tenacious government scientist and an unrelenting journalist—resulting in the polluting companies paying for the $1 billion, 20-year cleanup.

Paperback
Published: April 2023
ISBN: 9780814349588
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: April 2023
ISBN: 9780814349595

The Enchanted Boot

Italian Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

Edited, Translated, and Introduced by Nancy L. Canepa

A representative selection of tales from the Italian fairy-tale tradition, translated into English.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349205
$84.99
Paperback
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814334751
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349212

100 Years of the Detroit Historical Society

Joel Stone

A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and evolution of a cultural institution in Detroit.

Paperback
Published: December 2021
ISBN: 9780814348871
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2021
ISBN: 9780814348888

Disputed Messiahs

Jewish and Christian Messianism in the Ashkenazic World during the Reformation

Rebekka Voß
Translated by John Crutchfield

Jewish and Christian messianic thought and activism in the Reformation era in the Ashkenazic world.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814341643
$94.99
Paperback
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814348611
$42.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2021
ISBN: 9780814341650
AWARD
WINNER

Justus S. Stearns

Michigan Pine King and Kentucky Coal Baron, 1845-1933

Michael W. Nagle

Examines a major Michigan timber baron and political figure who also founded a coal-mining empire in Kentucky.

Paperback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348826
$26.99
Hardback
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814341261
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814341278
AWARD
WINNER

The Yiddish Historians and the Struggle for a Jewish History of the Holocaust

Mark L. Smith

Holocaust history written and researched by the Yiddish scholars who lived it.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346129
$89.99
Paperback
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814348413
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346136

Communings of the Spirit, Volume III

The Journals of Mordecai M. Kaplan, 1942-1951

Edited by Mel Scult

Mordecai Kaplan’s personal reactions to the events of the 1940s.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814347676
$99.99
Paperback
Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814348253
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2020
ISBN: 9780814347683
AWARD
WINNER

When Lions Were Kings

The Detroit Lions and the Fabulous Fifties

Richard Bak

An in-depth look at one of the most storied dynasties in Detroit sports history.

Paperback
Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814350997
$29.99
Hardback
Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814334270
$39.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2020
ISBN: 9780814334287

The JDC at 100

A Century of Humanitarianism

Edited by Avinoam Patt, Atina Grossmann, Linda G. Levi, and Maud S. Mandel

The history of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee from its origins in 1914 through its first century.

Printed Paper Cased
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814342343
$54.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2019
ISBN: 9780814342350
AWARD
WINNER

Rosie, A Detroit Herstory

Bailey Sisoy Isgro
Illustrated by Nicole Lapointe

For young readers, an illustrated true story about the women workers of World War II.

Printed Paper Case
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814345443
$17.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2018
ISBN: 9780814345450

White Squall

Sailing the Great Lakes

Edited by Victoria Brehm

White Squall is a history of the lakes written by those who knew them best in all weather and all eras from the beginning to the present.

Paperback
Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780970260611
$29.95
eBOOK
Published: May 2018
ISBN: 9780970260697

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 1

Jacob Rader Marcus

Comprehensive history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry’s cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344699
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344682

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 2, The Germanic Period

Jacob Rader Marcus

The second volume of this seminal work on American Jewry covers the period from 1841 to 1860.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344712
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344705

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 3, The Germanic Period, Part 2

Jacob Rader Marcus

The third volume covers the period from 1860 to 1920, beginning with the Jews, slavery, and the Civil War, and concluding with the rise of Reform Judaism.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344736
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344729

Ambiguous Relations

The American Jewish Community and Germany Since 1945

Shlomo Shafir

Addresses the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345085
$22.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345078

United States Jewry, 1776-1985

Volume 4, The East European Period, The Emergence of the American Jew Epilogue

Jacob Rader Marcus

In the final volume of this set, Marcus deals with the coming and challenge of the East European Jews from 1852 to 1920.

Paperback
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345061
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814345054

Pages