Univ Of Minnesota Press imprint: 799 books
The Marrying Kind?
Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
As the fight for same-sex marriage rages across the United States and lesbian and gay couples rush to marriage license counters, the goal of marriage is still fiercely questioned within the LGBT movement. Rarely has an objective so central to a social movement’s political agenda been so controversial...
Lob Trees In The Wilderness
The Human and Natural History of the Boundary Waters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
Along the Minnesota-Ontario border, in the days of voyageurs, tall trees were used as guideposts in the uncharted wilderness to help fur traders and explorers find their way through the maze of lakes and portages. Branches were cut, leaving the middle of the trees bare with branches above and below....
Exploring the Boundary Waters
A Trip Planner and Guide to the BWCAW
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
With more than 200,000 visitors annually, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is among the most alluring wilderness areas in the country, unique because it is most often explored by canoe. Comprised of more than one million acres, the BWCAW is an exceptional combination of expansive wilderness,...
Practice of Everyday Life
Volume 2: Living and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
To remain unconsumed by consumer society—this was the goal, pursued through a world of subtle and practical means, that beckoned throughout the first volume of The Practice of Everyday Life. The second volume of the work delves even deeper than did the first into the subtle tactics of resistance and...
Ready for Air
A Journey through Premature Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
For Kate Hopper, pregnancy is downright unpleasant. She is tired and heavy and worried, and she wants her wine and caffeine back. But then, at a routine checkup, her doctor frowns at her chart and says, “I’m worried about a couple of things”—and unpleasant suddenly seems like paradise. What follows...
Torn in Two
The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota’s Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed...
Corn Palaces and Butter Queens
A History of Crop Art and Dairy Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Teddy Roosevelt’s head sculpted from butter. The Liberty Bell replicated in oranges. The Sioux City Corn Palace of 1891 encased with corn, grains, and grasses and stretching for two city blocks—with a trolley line running down its center. Between 1870 and 1930, from county and state fairs to the...
by Albert Memmi
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In this time of global instability and widespread violence, Albert Memmi—author of the highly influential and groundbreaking work The Colonizer and the Colonized—turns his attention to the present-day situation of formerly colonized peoples. In Decolonization and the Decolonized, Memmi expands...
Mechademia 4
War/Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
The themes of war and time are intertwined in unique ways in Japanese culture, freighted as that nation is with the multiple legacies of World War II: the country’s militarization, its victories and defeats, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the uneasy pacifism imposed by the victors. Delving into topics...
Mechademia 8
Tezuka’s Manga Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Known as the “Walt Disney of Japan” it is no surprise that Tezuka Osamu is still the best-known manga creator to Western fans. Current scholarship has uncovered the profound complexity and ambiguity not only of his work but of the man, the artist, and his life—dismantling his position as the god...
by Eric Dregni
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Lake Minnetonka is renowned for its natural beauty as well as the prominent people it has attracted to its shores as a historic site of grand hotels, steamboats, and wealthy visitors from around the world, and as the home of the legendary Excelsior Amusement Park. But did you know that early European...
Negotiating Sex Work
Unintended Consequences of Policy and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Globally, discussions about sex work focus on exploitation. The media regularly provides us with stories about teen girls coerced to perform sexual acts for money, frequently beaten and robbed by their pimps or traffickers. While one would have to be hard-pressed to deny that sex workers are victimized,...
New Politics Of Race
Globalism, Difference, Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
It isn’t uncommon to hear now that race hardly matters anymore—that we’ve somehow gotten beyond it. In the face of such pronouncements, and the misconceptions that prompt them, this book aims to show precisely why and how race has always been, and remains, absolutely fundamental to modern politics....
Lemon Jail
On the Road with the Replacements
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
“Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” is Bill Sullivan’s motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’...