U of M Press News

Our New Spring 2010 Catalogue is now available for downloadf here.

Congratulations go out to the editors of Restoring the Balance: First Nations Women, Community, and Culture has been selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of 2009.

Larry Krotz, author of The Uncertain Business of Doing Good: Outsiders in Africa, will be be speaking on the topic of Foreign Adventures: The delicate business of international interventions at the University of Toronto's Woodsworth Alumni Café speaking series. Larry will be joined by Ronald Poulton, human rights lawyer and author of Pale Blue Hope: Death and Life in Asian Peackeeping. The event takes place at 6:30 pm on February 23, 2010 in the William Waters Lounge, Woodsworth Residence, 321 Bloor St. West. Call 416-978-5301 to reserve your seat.

Latest Reviews

On Mennonite Women in Canada: A History:
"This refreshing work orients Canadian Mennonite historiography towards questions of gender in a fashion that, while grounded in extensive research into primary and archival sources, is nonetheless an effective synthsis of a complex subject. As such, it is neither a theological treatment of "power" or "gender" nor an over-specialized monograph, but rather a straightforward, brilliantly researched, and well-argued history of a topic gaining in coverage that now has its own attempt at a survey. Having set a high standard for Canadian Mennonite women's studies in her earlier book, Women without Men: Mennonite Refugees of the Second World War (2000), Epp continues her masterful command of the field with this volume." –Brian Froese, Canadian Mennonite University,The Conrad Grebel Review

On A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Neilsen:
"This book is a captivating and exemplary rendition of the life of Neilsen. The explicit uses of varied sources, the detailed political analysis, as well as the keen attention to personal relations, collective solidarity, and social injustice, are praiseworthy and original contributions to historical scholarship." –Kathleen Lord, Mount Allison University, Left History, 14.1

New Releases

All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation
by Gerry Kopelow

Prairie Metropolis: New Essays on Winnipeg Social History by Esyllt W. Jones and Gerald Friesen, eds.

Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin
by David Church, ed.

Forthcoming Spring 2010

When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1950 – 1990
by Emma LaRocque

The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River
by Susan M. Hill

Sounds of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America, 1850 – 1914 by Barbara Lorenzkowski

Families, Lovers, and their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada
by Sonia Cancian