Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press’s Library of Open-Access Titles

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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press’s Library of Open-Access Titles
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These recent University of Minnesota Press titles have earned recognition from some of the world’s leading scholarly organizations.
Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange.
Rediscoveries presents books of continuing scholarly importance, originally published by Minnesota over the past two decades, in new open-access editions.
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