By WSU Faculty
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A Jew in the Street
New Perspectives on European Jewish History
Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.
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Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway
A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.
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When Detroit Played the Numbers
Gambling's History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
How Detroit entrepreneurs created a thriving lottery system to support themselves and uplift their communities despite scandal.
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The Dodge Brothers
The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy
Biography of John and Horace Dodge and the history of their company.
Paperback
ISBN: 9780814332474
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332467
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814337806
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"No Equal Justice"
The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.
The story of a civil rights icon and Black lawyer who fought racism and political oppression with uncommon devotion.
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ISBN: 9780814350584
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814348765
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348772
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The Plum Tree Blossoms Even in Winter
A leader’s journey of identity, resilience, and triumph.
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ISBN: 9780814349809
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ISBN: 9780814349816
Detroit's Wayne State University Law School
Future Leaders in the Legal Community
Account of the critical role students played in the history of an urban public law school.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814347614
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ISBN: 9780814347621
Women Writing Wonder
An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales
Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.
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ISBN: 9780814345009
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ISBN: 9780814345016
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ISBN: 9780814345023
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship
An important autobiography that reveals the story of William Sanders Scarborough who rose out of slavery to become a renowned classical philologist and African American icon.
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ISBN: 9780814332252
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814332245
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ISBN: 9780814348895
Homicide: Life on the Street
Analysis of race, racism, and the criminal justice system on Homicide: Life on the Street.
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ISBN: 9780814348673
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814348680
Invisible Ink
The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.
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ISBN: 9780814347591
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ISBN: 9780814347607
ISBN: 0814347592
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A People's Atlas of Detroit
Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit’s redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.
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ISBN: 9780814342978
eBOOK
ISBN: 9780814342985
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I Got to Keep Moving
African American characters navigate a physical and spiritual journey beginning in the antebellum South.
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ISBN: 9780814345931
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ISBN: 9780814345948
A History of Wayne State University in Photographs, Second Edition
Celebrating the growth of a premier university in the heart of Detroit.
Hardback
ISBN: 9780814345849
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ISBN: 9780814345955
Maurice Sugar
Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950
A biography of the life of Maurice Sugar, a labor activist and lawyer for the United Auto Workers, highlighting his struggles of the early 1930s to bring the union message to Detroit.
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ISBN: 9780814344835
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ISBN: 9780814340042
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Heaven Was Detroit
From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond
A comprehensive collection of essays on the long history of Detroit music by some of America’s best-known music writers.
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ISBN: 9780814341223
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ISBN: 9780814341230
Representation and Citizenship
Representation and Citizenship establishes the terms for engaging the meanings of citizenship in the world today by framing the issue as a pull between founding beliefs and multicultural trajectories.
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ISBN: 9780814342466
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ISBN: 9780814342473
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories
New short fiction by some of Michigan’s well-known and highly acclaimed authors.
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ISBN: 9780814341940
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ISBN: 9780814341957
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I Want to Be Once
Poems that take a poignant look at societal issues and contemporary American topics, such as working-class life and twenty-first century war.
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ISBN: 9780814342022
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ISBN: 9780814342039
The Meaning of Citizenship
An interdisciplinary exploration of four key issues in the theory and practice of citizenship.
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ISBN: 9780814341308
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ISBN: 9780814341315