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          Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties

          Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties

          Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

          by Philip P. Mason

          Price: $25.99

          ISBN: 9780814351048

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: May 2024

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          192 Pages

          Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.

          The Dodge Brothers

          The Dodge Brothers

          The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy

          by Charles K. Hyde

          Price: $24.99

          ISBN: 9780814332474

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: July 2023

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          272 Pages

          Despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry, but Hyde has put them front and center again to appropriately credit their lasting legacy.

          Rescue, Relief, and Resistance

          Rescue, Relief, and Resistance

          The Jewish Labor Committee's Anti-Nazi Operations, 1934–1945

          by Catherine Collomp

          Translated by Susan Emanuel

          Price: $36.99

          ISBN: 9780814346204

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: April 2021

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          364 Pages

          Students and scholars of Holocaust and American studies will find this text vital to their continued studies.

          No Haven for the Oppressed

          No Haven for the Oppressed

          United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945

          by Saul S. Friedman

          Price: $22.99

          ISBN: 9780814343739

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 2017

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          320 Pages

          He suggests that a disinclination to sully themselves in negotiations with the Nazis and a fear that any ransom would prolong the global conflict, caused the Allies to offer only token overtures to the Nazis on behalf of the Jews.

          All Our Yesterdays

          All Our Yesterdays

          A Brief History of Detroit

          by Frank B. Woodford and Arthur M. Woodford

          Price: $24.99

          ISBN: 9780814344439

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: December 2017

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          416 Pages

          But more important, this is a story by and about the people of Detroit, for it is the people that have made this city great.

          The Art of Memory

          The Art of Memory

          Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan

          by Thomas R. Dilley

          Price: $39.99

          ISBN: 9780814340196

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: September 2014

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          280 Pages

          Readers with roots in Grand Rapids as well as those interested in social and cultural history will enjoy The Art of Memory.

          Images from the Arsenal of Democracy

          Images from the Arsenal of Democracy

          by Charles K. Hyde

          Price: $39.99

          ISBN: 9780814339817

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: March 2014

          Format: Hardcover

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          312 Pages

          The first comprehensive and detailed history drawn solely from the surviving photographic record of wartime Detroit, Images from the Arsenal of Democracy will be appreciated by automotive historians, World War II scholars, and American history buffs.

          Cinema and Community

          Cinema and Community

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

          by Moya Luckett

          Price: $34.99

          ISBN: 9780814337257

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: July 2013

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          432 Pages

          Film scholars interested in the early years of American cinema will appreciate this insightful study.

          Redevelopment and Race

          Redevelopment and Race

          Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit

          by June Manning Thomas

          Price: $32.99

          ISBN: 9780814339077

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: April 2013

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          296 Pages

          A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.

          Monopoly on Wheels

          Monopoly on Wheels

          Henry Ford and the Selden Automobile Patent

          by William Greenleaf

          Introduction by David L. Lewis

          Price: $26.99

          ISBN: 9780814335123

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: March 2011

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          330 Pages

          Lewis.

          American Vanguard

          American Vanguard

          The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years, 1935-1970

          by John Barnard

          Price: $32.99

          ISBN: 9780814332979

          Publisher: Wayne State University Press

          Publication Date: September 2005

          Format: Paperback

          Imprint: Wayne State University Press

          624 Pages

          auto industry and national politics.

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