University Of Minnesota Press: 838 books
Global Gangs
Street Violence across the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently antagonistic. The first studies of gangs depicted them as alternative sources of order in urban slums where the state’s authority was lacking, and they have subsequently been shown...
by Michael Tymkiw
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
In one of the most comprehensive analyses ever written on the subject, Michael Tymkiw reassesses the relationship between Nazi exhibition design and modernism. While National Socialist exhibitions are widely understood as platforms...
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders
Homeless in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011
Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011
When homelessness reemerged...
House, but No Garden
Apartment Living in Bombay's Suburbs, 1898-1964
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Between the well-documented development of colonial Bombay and sprawling contemporary Mumbai, a profound shift in the city’s fabric occurred: the emergence of the first suburbs and their distinctive pattern of apartment living. In House, but No Garden Nikhil Rao considers this phenomenon and its significance...
Cyberwar and Revolution
Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
Global surveillance, computational propaganda, online espionage, virtual recruiting, massive data breaches, hacked nuclear centrifuges and power grids—concerns about...
by Erik Christian Haugaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An American Library Association Notable Book and his first book for children, Erik Christian Haugaard’s Hakon of Rogen’s Saga is a remarkable novel that perfectly catches the mood of a harsh but heroic people. Set at the end of the Viking period, it tells of a young boy, Hakon, from the island of...
Making Things International 1
Circuits and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Building on recent debates in critical social theory and international relations, Making Things International I: Circuits and Motion presents twenty-five essays that engage the global, the local, and the international through the lens of objects. It represents the first substantial new materialist intervention...
Pregnant on Arrival
Making the Illegal Immigrant
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“State alert as pregnant asylum seekers aim for Ireland.” “Country Being Held Hostage by Con Men, Spongers, and Those Taking Advantage of the Maternity Residency Policy.” From 1997 to 2004, headlines such as these dominated Ireland’s mainstream media as pregnant immigrants were recast as “illegals”...
by Maurice Waller, Anthony Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Thomas “Fats” Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and hundreds more. This is the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of his exuberant life, as told by his son,...
World Projects
Global Information before World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that,...
First Strike
Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
California is a state of immense contradictions. Home to colossal wealth and long portrayed as a bastion of opportunity, it also has one of the largest prison populations in the United States and consistently ranks on the bottom of education indexes. Taking a unique, multifaceted insider’s perspective,...
Black on Both Sides
A Racial History of Trans Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure...
Last Project Standing
Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments...
Precarious Prescriptions
Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective...