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Ann Arbor Paperbacks (Series)

Beginning in 1954, the University of Michigan Press under the direction of legendary publisher Fred Wieck began its long commitment to keeping a select group of worthy titles in print for use by students and scholars. As a result, the Ann Arbor Paperbacks series became home to some of the most influential and hotly-debated writings in Western intellectual history, in addition to titles of exceptional importance to teaching and research in certain newly emerging fields of scholarly inquiry. While the series is not currently active, University of Michigan Press remains keenly interested in hearing from faculty members about titles which, though currently out of print, remain of central importance to teaching and learning in the various disciplines. Our hope is to continue to provide students and teachers with inexpensive editions of foundational texts for use both in and out of the college and university classroom.

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The Pleasures of Exile

By George Lamming
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Caribbean Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Diaspora Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An examination of the effects of colonialism on those who are held in check

Vision and Violence

By Arthur P. Mendel
Subjects: History, Religion, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Just in time for the millennium—apocalyptic thinking, from ancient Greece to modern political philosophers

The Albigensian Crusades

By Joseph Strayer
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

In the Castle of My Skin

By George Lamming
Subjects: African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century

Period Piece

By Gwen Raverat
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Memories of a turn-of-the-century childhood by the granddaughter of Charles Darwin

The Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles

By Hesiod
Translated by Richmond Lattimore
Subjects: Classical Studies, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Prospero and Caliban

The Psychology of Colonization

By Octave Mannoni
Subjects: Anthropology, Psychology
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A classic in psychological ethnography and the history of colonialism

A People Numerous and Armed

Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence

Revised Edition

By John Shy
Subjects: History, American History, Cultural Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Bolshevik Visions

First Phase of the Cultural Revolution in Soviet Russia, Part 1

Second Edition

Edited by William G. Rosenberg
Subjects: European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Wandering Scholars

By Helen Waddell
Subjects: History, Literary Studies, European Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A study of the Goliards, itinerant Latin lyricists of the 12th and 13th centuries

Early Medieval Italy

Central Power and Local Society 400-1000

By Chris Wickham
Subjects: History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Discusses the social and economic development of Italy

The Merchant Class of Medieval London

1300-1500

By Sylvia L. Thrupp
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Class Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Matthew Arnold and the Classical Tradition

By Warren D. Anderson
Subjects: Literary Studies, 19th Century Literature, British and Irish Literatures, History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Shows how Arnold first experimented with his classical heritage.

Carolingian Portraits

A Study in the Ninth Century

By Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, History
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Death and Life in the Tenth Century

By Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Gateway to the Middle Ages

France and Britain

By Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Gateway to the Middle Ages

Monasticism

By Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Subjects: History, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Portrays monasticism as it developed under Columban, Benedict, and Gregory the Great

Carolingian Chronicles

Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories

By Bernhard Walter Scholz
Translated by Barbara Rogers-Gardner
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Buddhist Thought in India

Three Phases of Buddhist Philosophy

By Edward Conze
Subjects: Religion, Philosophy
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Discusses Indian Buddhist philosophy in three phases of its development

The Marrow of Tradition

By Charles W. Chesnutt
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, African American Studies, Fiction
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Calculus of Consent

Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy

By James M. Buchanan & Gordon Tullock
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

The Masterpiece

By Emile Zola
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Fiction
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Joan of Arc

By Jules Michelet
Translated by Albert Guerard
Subjects: History, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Recreates Joan's mission, betrayal, and death

Baroque Times in Old Mexico

Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places, and Practices

By Irving A. Leonard
Subjects: Latin American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Illuminates life in the feudal society of colonial Mexico

Aspects of Islamic Civilization

As Depicted in the Original Texts

By A. J. Arberry
Subjects: Middle and Near Eastern Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An anthology of selections from Arabic and Persian writers

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