University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Means Without End
Notes on Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2000
An essential reevaluation of the proper role of politics in contemporary life. In this critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben builds on his previous work to address the status and...
Northern Pike
Ecology, Conservation, and Management History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The northern pike—sometimes affectionately known as the “aquatic wolf”—is one of the most sought after and mythologized fishes in Minnesota, but until now there have been few books devoted to the history and ecological management of the species. Based on pioneering research carried out in Minnesota...
Hawk Ridge
Minnesota's Birds of Prey
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Was Caesar like the eagle because of his aquiline (from aquila, for “eagle” in Latin) nose, or does the eagle seem imperial because of his Caesar-like beak? Does the sharp vision of a “hawk-eyed” observer have any basis in nature? And what the heck is “kettling” to a bird-watcher, or,...
Archaeology of Minnesota
The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least 13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story—or...
This Is Not Florida
How Al Franken Won the Minnesota Senate Recount
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
On July 7, 2009, Al Franken was sworn in as Minnesota's junior U.S. senator-eight months after Election Night. In the chill of November 2008, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman led by a slim 215 votes, a margin that triggered an automatic statewide recount of more than 2.9 million ballots. Minnesota's...
A Measure of Success
The Influence of Curriculum-Based Measurement on Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Simple in concept, far-reaching in implementation, Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) was developed in the 1980s as an efficient way to assess the progress of struggling students, including those with disabilities. Today, there are few areas of special education policy and practice that have not been...
Degrees of Freedom
The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
He had just given a rousing speech to a crammed assembly in St. Paul, but Frederick Douglass, confidant to the Great Emancipator himself and conscience of the Republican Party, was denied a hotel room because he was black. This was Minnesota in 1873, four years after the state had approved black suffrage—a...
Taconite Dreams
The Struggle to Sustain Mining on Minnesota’s Iron Range, 1915-2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
The Iron Range earned its name honestly: it was once among the world’s richest iron ore mining districts. The Iron Range propelled the U.S. steel industry in the late nineteenth century, and iron mining sustained generations in the region with work and a strong economy. But long before most other parts...
Myths of the Rune Stone
Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
What do our myths say about us? Why do we choose to believe stories that have been disproven? David M. Krueger takes an in-depth look at a legend that held tremendous power in one corner of Minnesota, helping to define both a community’s and a state’s identity for decades.
In 1898, a Swedish...
The Great Minnesota Cookie Book
Award-Winning Recipes from the Star Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Eighty delicious, imaginative recipes from the Star Tribune’s beloved annual cookie contest, with mouth-watering pictures and bakers’ stories
It’s cold in Minnesota, especially around the holidays, and there’s nothing like baking a batch of cookies to warm the kitchen and the heart....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the...
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...
by la paperson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian boarding schools, Black education, and missionary...
The Children of Lincoln
White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans
White people, Frederick Douglass said in a speech in 1876, were “the children of Lincoln,” while black people were “at best his stepchildren.”...