17 títulos para "Univ Of Chicago Behalf Of Minnesota Univ"

Prisons of Poverty

Loïc Wacquant

Playing With Fire

Sangtin Writers

Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversatio...

Engraving the Savage

Michael Gaudio

In 1585, the British painter and explorer John White created images of Carolina Algonquian Indians. These images were collected and engraved in 1590 by the Flemish publisher and printmaker Theodor de Bry and were reproduced widely, establishing the visual prototype of North American Indians for Euro...

Henry James - American Writers 4

Leon Edel

Henry James - American Writers 4 was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Francis Bacon

Gilles Deleuze

Translated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith Afterword by Tom Conley Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painters method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, and repetition influenced Deleuzes work. Th...

Demonic Grounds

Katherine McKittrick

IIn a long overdue contribution to geography and social theory, Katherine McKittrick offers a new and powerful interpretation of black womens geographic thought. In Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States, black women inhabit diasporic locations marked by the legacy of violence and slavery. Ana...

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

Since the end of the Second World War-and particularly over the last decade-Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual-from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to...

The Dallas Myth

Harvey J. Graff

The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is exceptional among American cities for the claims of its elites and boosters that it is a "city with no limits" and a "city with no history." Home to the Dallas Cowboys, self-styled as "Americas Team," setting for the television series that glamo...

Dubai, the City as Corporation

Ahmed Kanna

Somewhere in the course of the late twentieth century, Dubai became more than itself. The city was, suddenly, a postmodern urban spectacle rising from the desert-precisely the glittering global consumer utopia imagined by Dubais rulers and merchant elite. In Dubai, the City as Corporation, Ahmed Kan...

Swamplife

Laura A. Ogden

Little in North America is wilder than the Florida Everglades-a landscape of frightening reptiles, exotic plants in profusion, swarms of mosquitoes, and unforgiving heat. And yet, even from the early days of taming the wilderness with clearing and drainage, the Everglades has been considered fragile...

Microfinance and Its Discontents

Lamia Karim

In 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the country. Amid euphori...

The Transit of Empire

Jodi A. Byrd

In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that s...