University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Dispatches from the Arab Spring
Understanding the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary...
Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes
Jim Walsh on Music from Minneapolis to the Outer Limits
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Bar Yarns and Manic Depressive Mix Tapes distills thirty delirious, jam-packed years of some of the best music writing ever to come out of the Twin Cities. As a writer and musician, the ever-curious Jim Walsh has lived a life immersed in music, and it all makes its way into his columns and feature articles,...
Disorderly Families
Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the subjects of requests for confinement written to the king of France in the eighteenth century. These letters of arrest (lettres de cachet) from France’s Ancien Régime were often associated with excessive...
by Stendhal
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Nineteenth-century French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, is one of the earliest leading practitioners of realism, his stories filled with sharp analyses of his characters’ psychology. This translation of Stendhal’s Chroniques italiennes is a collection of nine tales...
Living for Change
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Living for Change is a sweeping account of the life of an untraditional radical from the end of the thirties, through the cold war, the civil rights era, and the rise of Black Power, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers to the present efforts to rebuild our crumbling urban communities. This fascinating...
Building a House in Heaven
Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Charity is an economic act. This premise underlies a societal transformation—the merging of religious and capitalist impulses that Mona Atia calls “pious neoliberalism.” Though the phenomenon spans religious lines, Atia makes the connection between Islam and capitalism to examine the surprising...
The Rule of Logistics
Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart’s more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime. Even if you’ve never shopped at Walmart, its logistics have probably affected your life. The Rule...
Politics the Wellstone Way
How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
During the past four years, political activism has grown to a level that has not been seen in the United States since the Vietnam War. Tensions over the war in Iraq and the presidential election motivated hundreds of thousands of people on both sides of the political fence to take to the streets. Politics...
by N. Adriana Knouf
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
As scores of crises over the past century have shown, the stock market is manipulable and manipulated. The market is composed of human-made machines, which are affected by a lack of predictability more fundamental than the human: the noise of the material world. N. Adriana Knouf draws on historical...
The Servant Class City
Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying...
Red Lights
The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
In China today, sex work cannot be untangled from the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, the entertainment industry, and state power. In Red Lights, Tiantian Zheng highlights the urban karaoke bar as the locus at which these three factors intersect and provides a rich account of the lives of karaoke...
Corporate Sovereignty
Law and Government under Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Refinery explosions. Accounting scandals. Bank meltdowns. All of these catastrophes—and many more—might rightfully be blamed on corporations. In response, advocates have suggested reforms ranging from increased government regulation to corporate codes of conduct to stop corporate abuses. Joshua Barkan...
The Deadly Life of Logistics
Mapping Violence in Global Trade
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali pirates, and natural disaster can disrupt the flow of goods, even our “stuff” has a political life. The high stakes of logistics are not surprising,...
Making Things International 2
Catalysts and Reactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2016
Drawing widely from contemporary social and critical thought, Making Things International 2 offers provocative interventions into debates about causality, connection, and politics through the notion of assemblage. Political assemblages, especially those that cross national borders, can be catalyzed by...