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A Jew in the Street

New Perspectives on European Jewish History

Edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovitch

Reconsidering how early modern and modern Jews navigated schisms between Jewish community and European society.

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ISBN: 9780814349687
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Available June 2024
ISBN: 9780814349670
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ISBN: 9780814349694

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.

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Available May 2024
ISBN: 9780814351048
$25.99
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ISBN: 9780814325834
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ISBN: 9780814351055

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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ISBN: 9780814350768
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ISBN: 9780814350782
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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.

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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814332474
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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814332467
$36.99
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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814337806
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"No Equal Justice"

The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.

Edward J. Littlejohn and Peter J. Hammer

The story of a civil rights icon and Black lawyer who fought racism and political oppression with uncommon devotion.

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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814350584
$24.99
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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814348765
$36.99
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Published: July 2023
ISBN: 9780814348772
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The Plum Tree Blossoms Even in Winter

M. Roy Wilson

A leader’s journey of identity, resilience, and triumph.

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Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349809
$24.99
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Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814349816

Detroit's Wayne State University Law School

Future Leaders in the Legal Community

Alan Schenk

Account of the critical role students played in the history of an urban public law school.

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Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347614
$39.99
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Published: April 2022
ISBN: 9780814347621

Women Writing Wonder

An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales

Edited and Translated by Julie L. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan, and Adrion Dula

Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.

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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345009
$92.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345016
$36.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814345023
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough

An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship

Edited with an Introduction by Michele Valerie Ronnick
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814332252
$26.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814332245
$34.99
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Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348895

Homicide: Life on the Street

Lisa Doris Alexander

Analysis of race, racism, and the criminal justice system on Homicide: Life on the Street.

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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348673
$19.99
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Published: September 2021
ISBN: 9780814348680

Invisible Ink

A Memoir by Guy Stern

The incredible autobiography of an exiled child during WWII.

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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347591
$27.99
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Published: August 2020
ISBN: 9780814347607
Published: August 2020
ISBN: 0814347592
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A People's Atlas of Detroit

Edited by Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann

Critical, wide-ranging analyses of Detroit’s redevelopment and alternative visions for its future.

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Published: March 2020
ISBN: 9780814342978
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Published: March 2020
ISBN: 9780814342985
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I Got to Keep Moving

Stories by Bill Harris

African American characters navigate a physical and spiritual journey beginning in the antebellum South.

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Published: November 2018
ISBN: 9780814345931
$19.99
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Published: November 2018
ISBN: 9780814345948

A History of Wayne State University in Photographs, Second Edition

Evelyn Aschenbrenner
With a Foreword by M. Roy Wilson

Celebrating the growth of a premier university in the heart of Detroit.

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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814345849
$39.99
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Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814345955

Maurice Sugar

Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950

Christopher H. Johnson

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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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814344835
$22.99
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Published: February 2018
ISBN: 9780814340042
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Heaven Was Detroit

From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond

Edited by M. L. Liebler with a foreword by Dave Marsh

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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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814341223
$24.99
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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814341230

Representation and Citizenship

Edited by Richard Marback

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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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814342466
$39.99
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Published: October 2016
ISBN: 9780814342473
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Bob Seger's House and Other Stories

Edited by Michael Delp and M. L. Liebler
with a Foreword by Charles Baxter

New short fiction by some of Michigan’s well-known and highly acclaimed authors.

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Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814341940
$25.99
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Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814341957
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I Want to Be Once

Poems by M. L. Liebler

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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Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342022
$17.99
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Published: April 2016
ISBN: 9780814342039

The Meaning of Citizenship

Edited by Richard Marback and Marc W. Kruman

An interdisciplinary exploration of four key issues in the theory and practice of citizenship.

Paperback
Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814341308
$44.99
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Published: November 2015
ISBN: 9780814341315

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