U of M Press News

Our New Fall 2010 Catalogue is now available for download here.

Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age by Jim Blanchard is set to launch in October 2010. The official launch event will be taking place at McNally Robinson Booksellers on Oct. 5, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Atrium.

Latest Reviews

On Families, Lovers and their Letters:
"America wasn't the only destination for immigrants. Families, Lovers and their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada looks at immigration to Canada, in particular Italians who came overseas following World War II. Telling these individuals stories through a their letters, Sonia Cancian paints a portrait of life and the immigrant experience not always heard about...a thoughtful and insightful read, very highly recommended." — James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

On Playing With Memories:
"While it is, for the most part, an anthololgy of academic articles, the David Church-edited Playing with Memories offers an assortment of writing worthy of Maddin's own mutifarious influences. The book casts its net fairly wide, with different authors tacking the variously fascinating aspects of Maddin's work. Playing with Memories serves up a proper smorgasbord of critical insight into Maddin's films, offering a little something for anyone interested in any particular theme, style, or single work in his impressive filmography." — John Semley, Cinenaste, Fall 2010

On Mennonite Women in Canada: A History:
"Mennonite Women in Canada: A History is an extremely useful addition to the literature of both Mennonite and Canadian women's history. Carefully situated in the larger international discourse of women's and gender history,... [Epp's] work has the unusual quality of being both a fine piece of scholarship and a book which students will actually enjoy reading."— James Mochoruk, University of North Dakota, North Dakota Quarterly

New Releases

Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies
by Frances Swyripa

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

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

Forthcoming Fall 2010

Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age by Jim Blanchard

Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions by Paul Thomas and Curtis Brown, eds.

Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada
by Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Marian Bredin, eds.