Books from U of Minnesota Press
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From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
By Peter Yoonsuk PaikEric Finch, the capable chief of New Scotland Yard (also known as the “Nose”), cuts a grizzled, world-weary figure. Selflessly dedicated to his work and immune to the lure of ambition, he wins the unquestioning trust of the Chancellor.
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Sovereignty
By John HoffmanBut if . as Weber argues , the state is absurd ( and I believe that it is ) , why should we not incorporate this absurdity into the way in which we define sovereignty itself ? Weber and Bartelson are opposed to definitions - to all ...
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The Responsive Environment: Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s
By Larry D. BusbeaSerge Boutourline Jr., Michel A. Carré, Michel François-Poncet, Peter S. Miller, Clifford D. Oldham, Paul B. Rosenberg, and William M. Twaddle, Individual Creativity and the Corporation (Boston: Manufacturing Group 25 and Institute of ...
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Who Speaks for Margaret Garner?
By Mark Reinhardt... Patterson's conception of social death and to Kenneth S. Greenberg's argument that the Southern press feared a symbolic emancipation of Nat Turner. See Patterson, Slavery and Social Death; and Greenberg, Honor and Slavery, 107. 98.
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Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
By Jeffrey AnglesIt was during the Meiji period that fountains became common fixtures in public parks. In 1877 the government constructed the first fountain in a public space in Tokyo's Ueno Park for the first Domestic Exposition for the Encouragement ...
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St. Paul's Architecture: A History
By Jeffrey A. Hess, Paul Clifford LarsonThe largest settlement was a Swiss and French Canadian enclave at Fountain Cave, about four miles downstream from Fort Snelling. Although Plympton had succeeded in distancing the settlers from the fort, he believed they were still too ...
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America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire
By Mark L. GillemMike Worden, the installation commander. In 2004 he said, “I have the best job in the Air Force. I get to cut ribbons and not turn out lights and shut down buildings. It's really heartwarming to be part of growth and not stagnate.
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Minnesota: A History of the State
By Theodore Christian Blegen... writer , 518 , 607 War II action in , 542 15 1st Field Artillery , 475 : welcomed Pacific railroad , 193–94 , 195 , 235 , 252 , home , 476 ; in World War II , 542 298–99 , 302 Open - pit mining , 358 , 366 , 372 , 375 Paine , Parker ...
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Body Modern: Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject
By Michael SappolFor a recent neuroscientific account of how the self becomes consolidated into a singularity, see Michael S. Gazzaniga, Who's in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain (New York: Ecco, 2011), and Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, ...
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Dubious Alliance: The Making of Minnesota's DFL Party
By John Earl HaynesEwing also mentioned that he had recently discussed merger with Viena Johnson, state secretary of the Farmer-Labor Association. Unfortunately, Ewing noted, Johnson appeared uninterested.3 During the early months of 1943, ...
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Family Measurement Techniques: Abstracts of Published Instruments, 1935-1974
By Murray Arnold Straus, Bruce W. BrownBLUM,G.S. The Blacky Pictures VARIABLES MEASURED. Psychosexual aspects of personality in accordance with psychoanalytic hypotheses of development of personality: Oral eroticism. Oral sadism. Anal expulsiveness and retentiveness, ...
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Jonathan Edwards
By Edward M. GriffinBenjamin Rand. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931. Miller, Peny. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956. . The New England Mind: From Colony to Province.
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Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787
By Edward M. Griffin... Colonel, 160 Quincy, Josiah, Jr.: and Charles Chauncy, 141 ; political views, 141 ; in trial after Boston Massacre, 150; represents Whigs in England, 155; identified as rebel, 156 Rand, Robert, 35 Rel1'g1'0usA ffections.
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The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism
By William SpanosWe saw students in Tiananmen Square , we saw students in Prague and in Budapest and Warsaw who know John Locke better than our students do because we don't teach John Locke as much as we used to , if we teach him at all .
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Demonic Grounds: Black Women And the Cartographies of Struggle
By Katherine McKittrick... Gerald F. Pyle, “The Diffusion of HIV/AIDS and HIV Infection in an Archetypal Textile County,” 63–81; Sarah McLafferty and Barbara Templaski, “Restructuring Women's Reproductive Health: Implications of Low Birthweight in New York ...
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Gold Experience: Following Prince in the '90s
By Jim WalshBut Warners won't release it.” As a result of this logjam of material, Prince and the New Power Generation have postponed their planned world tour, which was originally scheduled to open in Australia or Japan this winter.
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Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era
By Patricia S. MannRich with historical and cultural value, these works are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives on States and Social Movements
By J. Craig JenkinsNotes of collective protest (Flanigan and Fogelman 1970; Williams and Timberlake. 1. In this paper, I ignore the debate on the link between income inequality and economic performance. Contrary to the common conviction that a more equal ...
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Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art
By James J. HodgeFor a popular example of this parallelistic group form, see Mark Romanek's 2016 video for Justin Timberlake's song “Can't Stop the Feeling.” On “group form,” see Kris Cohen, Never Alone, Except for Now: Art, Networks, ...
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When America Became Suburban
By Robert A. BeauregardOn small-town America and social cohesion, see Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 204–215. 7. Gail Radford, Modern Housing for America (Chicago: University ...