Books from U of Minnesota Press

  • To the Third Empire: Ibsen's Early Drama
    By Brian Johnston

    Rich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

  • Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers, and the Birth of the NBA
    By Michael Schumacher

    We had Otto Graham, Chuck Connors, and Del Rice on that team. They only played a year with us, in '45-46." Graham, of course, would go on to become one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, and Rice would enjoy a lengthy career ...

  • Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema
    By Todd Mcgowan

    For instance, in the conclusion of The End of Time, Julian Barbour claims, “I see no fundamental line of time and causal evolution along which we march as robots; each experienced Now is new and distinct.” Julian Barbour, The End of ...

  • Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination
    By Susan J. Douglas

    As Walter Barnes wrote in his column “Hittin' High Notes” for the African American newspaper The Chicago Defender, “When the radio was first put into use there was no dream of ever hearing a race orchestra over the air.

  • Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000
    By John Archer

    In my little dream house on the hill , You're as close to me when all is still.54 Tom Coakley's rendition of " East of the Sun ( and West of the Moon ) , " which topped the charts at number one in 1935 , maintained a similar focus on ...

  • Argentina: Stories for a Nation
    By Amy K. Kaminsky

    ... Horacio, 161, 178 Viñas, David, 251 violence, xiv, 112–16, 158–82, 185, 188, 223 Walsh, Sylvia Maultash, 170 Warsaw, 153, 155 Weber, Andrew Lloyd, 203, whiteness, xi, 3, 4, 117–21 white slavery, 48, 139, 149–50,151–52, 252.

  • Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
    By Amy F. Ogata

    Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata. that environment, opportunity and peace that is so necessary to growing children.”10 Figure 3.1. Lloyd Morgan Yost, House Studies Published in Small.

  • Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
    By Erica Renee Edwards

    ... working with Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph at the Messenger and meeting weekly with a group of Harlem leftists, which included Ella Baker, Robert Bagnall, and I. A. Rogers, to discuss politics, history, and philosophy.56 III ...

  • Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art
    By Heather Diack

    Like Robert Morris's Box with the Sound of Its Own Making (1961) or Card File (1962) and other process-oriented conceptual works of the period, this image describes its own making. Not simply because the title directly explains the ...

  • When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community
    By Thomas W. Pearson

    ... justice activism, see Robert D. Bullard, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality, 3rd ed. ... Environmentalists, Industry, Counties and Towns, Half Moon Education, Inc., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, August 1, 2013).

  • Deathwork: Defending the Condemned
    By Michael Mello

    5 The Electric Chair : Bob Sullivan I note that both the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Humane Society of the United States prohibit electrocution as a means to euthanize animals . —Georgia Supreme Court Justice Leah ...

  • Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism
    By Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore

    Toussaint, E., and A. Zacharie. 2003. “External Debt: Abolish the Debt in Order to Free Development. ... J. A. Fox and L. D. Brown, 391–436. Cambridge: MIT Press. UNDP (United Nations Development Programme). 1990.

  • The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics
    By Hubert H. Humphrey

    ... Robert , 337 LeMay , Curtis , 139 Lewis , Ted , 40 Library of Congress , 182 Lie , Trygve H. , 312 Life magazine ... 112 , 116 Lundeen , Ernest , 80 McCarthy , Abigail , 153 , 221 McCarthy , Eugene J. , 135 , 136 , 153 , 170 , 171 ...

  • Chaucer at Large: The Poet in the Modern Imagination
    By Steve Ellis

    Versions of these include James J. Donohue , trans . , Chaucer's Lesser Poems Complete , in Present - Day English ( Dubuque , Iowa : Loras College Press , 1974 ) ; Ann McMillan , trans . , Legend of Good Women ( Houston , Tex .

  • Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State
    By Amy C. Sullivan

    In Harm Reduction: National and International Perspectives, edited by James A. Inciardi and Lana D. Harrison, 1–26. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2000. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452220680. Roble, Abdi, and Douglas F. Rutledge.

  • Samuel Johnson: A Survey and Bibliography of Critical Studies
    By James James Lowry Clifford, Donald Johnson Greene

    Ralph S. Walker. London: Heinemann; New York: McGraw- Hill, 1966. 'Vol. 2. The Correspondence and Other Papers of James Boswell Relating to the Making of the Life of Johnson, ed. Marshall Waingrow. New York: McGraw-Hill; ...

  • Film, Politics, and Gramsci
    By Marcia Landy

    London : Verso , 1988 , pp . 116-45 . Summer , Doris . " Irresistible Romance : The Foundational Fictions of Latin America . " In Nation and Narration , ed . Homi K. Bhabha . Tagliacozzo , Giorgio , ed . Vico and Marx : Affinities and ...

  • Cinematic Uses of the Past
    By Marcia Landy

    1 (London: Dent, 1974), pp. 43-44. 4. Ibid., p. 47. 5. Ibid., p. 71. 6. Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, ed. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (New York: International Publishers, 1978), p. 137. 7. Ibid., p.

  • By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth
    By Richard Hudelson, Carl Ross

    ... 131; workers arrested, 83 Ore Trimmers' Union, 45 Orlandich, John, 69 O'Rourke, Michael J., 148, 155, 215, 228, 313 Ouse, ... Pearson, Ernie, 219, 252; in CIO leadership, 199; death of, 268–69; organizes Western Paint union, 182; ...

  • Welfare
    By Norman P. Barry

    3 Although most collectivist welfare theorists ( including Titmuss himself ) would not reject the market per se , they do maintain that it is the cause of those economic misfortunes that render some people in need of welfare .