University of Minnesota Press

Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit liberal democratic politics as much as encourage it? Good governance is meant to...

A soul-satisfying journey through the wilderness that uncovers hope, healing, and the abiding grace of wild things A Wild Path is author Douglas Wood's highly anticipated followup to the critically...

How Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarship Abolition Time is an invitation to reenvision abolitionist justice through literary studies. Placing critical...

A summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm--and learns far more than how to herd sheep In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of ...

Poem-songs summon the voices of Anishinaabe ancestors and sing to future generations The ancestors that walk with us, sing us our song. When we get quiet enough, we can hear them sing and make them...

The delicious recipes and community spirit that have made Appetite for Change a force for good in North Minneapolis Feed someone a delicious meal, and you've satisfied a moment's hunger. Show someone...

The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern...

Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jet? (1962), the time-travel short feature by the reclusive French filmmaker Christian...

Tracking Bengaluru's dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru's...

People live by their stories--how can we use them to accelerate action on climate change? Climate scientist and policy expert Anna Farro Henderson embarks on a remarkable narrative journey in Core...

A kaleidoscopic literary exploration of extinction and conservation, inspired by the latest scientific research Creature Needs is a polyvocal call to arms about animal extinction and habitat loss...

Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not...

An urgent reckoning with digital technology's fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism...

Following the extraordinary life story of James Cornbread" Harris, Deeper Blues is a unique history of Minnesota music that evolves into a heartfelt tale of reconciliation and forgiveness, all to the...

An authoritative, accessible, and entertaining nature recreation guide to one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring areas in the Midwest The St. Croix River is a 169-mile ribbon of blue that...

A comprehensive study of the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, related in two-year chapters by twenty-three leading writers on the Jazz Age author "There never was a good biography of a novelist," F...

Exploring technology, ethics, and culture to unlock digital scholarship's future Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing navigates the ever-shifting terrain of digital academia, examining practical and...

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness's epochal weather disaster On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), a bizarre confluence of...

A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built...

A personal journey through the ever-changing natural and cultural history of Lake Superior's South Shore Lake Superior's South Shore is as malleable as it is enduring, its red sandstone cliffs, clay...

"The age of transnational humanities has arrived." According to Steven Salaita, the seemingly disparate fields of Palestinian Studses and American Indian studies have more in common than one may...

A warrior struggles through an apocalyptic landscape and the world after death Kree has been raised as a fearless fighter in a ravaged world: postapocalyptic, posthuman, the population decimated by...

The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Almer?, Spain, in fall 1966, and in...

A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott's remarkable writings "All I really need to do is simply ask a question," Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds...

In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Intellectually audacious...

A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our understanding of the human role in healing our planet I used to be an ecologist. . . . Now, I am a...

A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse A meditative, postapocalyptic noir, Mevlido's Dreams is an urgent communiqu?from a far-future reality...

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate change-driven mutations of urban space and life Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expanding real estate market powered by global surges of...

Tales of murder and revenge: the early exploits of detective Shadwell Rafferty Shadwell Rafferty's last case may have led to his murder, but naturally--and happily, for followers of the indefatigable...

Long before it came to be known as Duluth, the land at the western tip of Lake Superior was known to the Ojibwe as Onigamiising, "the place of the small portage." There the Ojibwe lived in keeping...