Books published by University of Minnesota Press

A study of the transformation of television in Spain following the end of Franco's dictatorship, Maxwell's book examines the politics of the privatization of television, the rise of regional television, and the transnational realignment of national media space.

This volume features original essays which combine feminism and Bakhtin by interpreting texts through these two perspectives, to arrive at new theoretical approaches. Together, the essays point to a direction that would lead to a feminine "etre" rather than a feminine "ecriture".

Reveals that James Joyce's "Ulysses" can be seen as a guerrilla text written to resist colonialism.

Scott's investigation of "Yaktovil" within the Sri Lankan Sinhala cosmology, also inquires into the ways in which anthropology (ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions and relationships it seeks to describe) tends to reproduce ideological, often specifically colonial, objects.

Offers perspectives and subjects largely outside traditional historiography. This book broadens the concept of media history to include lesser-studied media, and offers alternative interpretations of traditional media.

In this sequel to her last book "Developing Variations", Rose Rosengard Subotnik continues her work on musicology. Her concerns are both formal and sociological, linking music to social and cultural contexts and breaking down the barriers between music and life.

Jenny Sharpe brings the historical memory of the 1857 Indian Mutiny to bear upon the theme of rape in British and Anglo-Indian fiction. She introduces race and colonialism to feminist theories of rape and sexual difference.

Ours is an era of dramatic changes in basic social relationships, changes we usually negotiate without thinking about them in any systematic way. In this study, the author sets out to develop a theoretical framework for understanding the complicated social transformations of our day.

The Medieval Monastery was first published in 1991. 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.

The Medieval Castle was first published in 1991. 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.

The result of a study conducted by the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the political science department of the University of Minnesota, commissioned to investigate the decline of public confidence in the Minnesota state legislature.

Deals conceptually and historically with the types of changes an Eastern European socialist state might undergo. Selecting the Yugoslav model for analysis, Denitch examines issues of decentralization, autonomy for non-party and non-state institutions, the role of women and multi-ethnicity.

Ranges from the history of Western philosophy to concepts of rationality in non-Western countries, to offer new perspectives on the workings of individual judgment and the social responsibility it entails.

Looks at the domains of inquiry we call "science" and "technology" to assert that traditional perspectives (like classical idealism and materialism) fail to suggest the rich and complex interplay between them.

Based on detailed research, this book defends UNESCO and chronicles the history of the organization and the Reagan administration's alleged disinformation campaign against it.

A critique of high modernism from a newly formulated Marxist perspective, achieved through analyses of texts by Marx and Adorno, Manet's paintings, and the works of several Latin American writers.

Ten scholars discuss the relationship between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy, and demonstrate that their approaches are not diametrically opposed.

Using a wide range of examples, Cottom argues for the necessity of multiple readings of text and culture, and against the repression of historical differences, conflicts, and possibilities.

This reappraisal of Hart Crane's poetry takes into account the substantial body of commentary on his work, but the author's primary intent is to look afresh at the poems themselves and at the poet's letters.

The fourteen contributors to this volume address de Man's theory and practice of reading, the nature of those readings and what they signify for reading in general, not just literary texts.

Coastal Marshes was first published in 1988. 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.The coastal regions of the United States form a highly diversified environment. In addition to sandy beaches and rocky shorelines, there are lagoons, rivers, estuaries, and marshes. The last are a dominant features of many coastal areas and serve as a transition between sea and uplands. Coastal marshes have been a zone for human development, attractive to industrial and residential building because they provide water frontage. But the public is becoming aware of the great value of these wetlands to fisheries and wildlife and to the local economy that depends on them.This book describes coastal marshes in terms of form, function, ecology, wildlife value, and management. Robert H. Chabreck's emphasis is on the marshes of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico (there are 5,500 square miles of marshland in Louisiana alone), but he also deals with marshes on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Plant and animal communities are each given a chapter, and the book concludes with considerations of future uses and needs. The author provides references, a glossary, and a list of scientific names, along with numerous illustrations, including a section of color photographs.For thirty years, Robert H. Chabreck has been engaged in research and management of coastal marshes and has often served as a consultant in wetland ecology. He is a professor of wildlife at Louisiana State University.

Explanation and Power was first published in 1988. 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.The meaning of any utterance or any sign is the response to that utterance or sign: this is the fundamental proposition behind Morse Peckham's Explanation and Power. Published in 1979 and now available in paperback for the first time, Explanation and Power grew out of Peckham's efforts, as a scholar of Victorian literature, to understand the nature of Romanticism. His search ultimately led back to-and built upon-the tradition of signs developed by the American Pragmatists. Since, in Peckham's view, meaning is not inherent in word or sign, only in response, human behavior itself must depend upon interaction, which in turn relies upon the stability of verbal and nonverbal signs. In the end, meaning can be stabilized only by explanation, and when explanation fails, by force. Peckham's semiotic account of human behavior, radical in its time, contends with the same issues that animate today's debates in critical theory - how culture is produced, how meaning is arrived at, the relation of knowledge to power and of society to its institutions. Readers across a wide range of disciplines, in the humanities and social sciences, will welcome its reappearance.