University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric
A Twenty-First Century Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Through two previous editions, The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric has not only introduced new scholars to interdisciplinary research but also become a standard research tool in a number of fields and pointed the way toward future study.
Adopting research...
by Marvin A. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This is the first book to interpret the African dimension of contemporary Hispanic literature.
Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, is the only African country in which Spanish is an official language and which has a tradition of literature in Spanish. This is a study of the literature...
by Jonathan N. Barron
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly...
Discovering Organizational Identity
Dynamics of Relational Attachment
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book focuses on the theory and practice of understanding and transforming organizations with the goal to discover common ground between groups and individuals. Diamond presents a framework of reflective practice for organizational researchers, scholar-practitioner consultants, executives, managers, and workers in order to promote a more satisfying and humane work-life.
Tangled Bylines
A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This memoir of father and son journalists—both named Clyde Farnsworth—draws on the unfinished autobiography of the author’s father. Largely biographical, this book can be read as a panoramic history of American newspaper journalism in the twentieth-century, covering Prohibition gangs, prison...
Working the Mississippi
Two Centuries of Life on the River
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the...
Reconceiving Nature
Ecofeminism in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Surprisingly, glimmerings of ecofeminist theory that would emerge a century later can be detected in women’s poetry of the late Victorian period. In Reconceiving Nature, Patricia Murphy examines the work of six ecofeminist poets—Augusta Webster, Mathilde Blind, Michael Field, Alice Meynell, Constance...
The Pull of Politics
Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway, and the Left in the Late 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All three writers were involved with the Left at the time, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton...
by John C. Hagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and...
Bureaucracy in America
The Administrative State’s Challenge to Constitutional Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by...
Crossings
A White Man's Journey Into Black America
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
One day in the dentist's office journalist Walt Harrington heard a casual racist joke that left him enraged. Married to a black woman, Harrington is the father of two biracial children. His experience in the dentist's office made him realize not only that the joke was about his own children but also...
Henry Ware Lawton
Union Infantryman, Frontier Soldier, Charismatic Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Henry Ware Lawton’s nearly four decades as a professional soldier in the U.S. Army tie his story closely to that of America in the nineteenth century, from the Civil War to the settlement of the West, to the experiment with empire. Lawton served the country nearly uninterrupted from the day he enlisted...
Breaking Babe Ruth
Baseball's Campaign Against Its Biggest Star
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball’s draconian labor system. To the baseball establishment, Ruth’s immense popularity represented opportunity, but his rebelliousness...
Private Aid, Political Activism
American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936–1949
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This book explores American medical relief to Spain and China in the 1930s and 1940s as responses to the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Although serving vastly different peoples in strikingly distant landscapes, the three aid organizations focused on here illustrate a transition...