University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
A More Beautiful Question
The Spiritual in Poetry and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
As more and more people in North America and Europe have distanced themselves from mainstream religious traditions over the past centuries, a “crisis of faith” has emerged and garnered much attention. But Glenn Hughes, author of A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art, contends...
The State Park Movement in America
A Critical Review
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Essentially a phenomenon of the twentieth century, America’s pioneering state park movement has grown rapidly and innovatively to become one of the most important forces in the preservation of open spaces and the provision of public outdoor recreation in the country. During this time, the movement...
The Baron in the Grand Canyon
Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer...
East-West Literary Imagination
Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists...
The Life of Mark Twain
The Middle Years, 1871–1891
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
The second volume of Gary Scharnhorst’s three-volume biography chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens between his move with his family from Buffalo to Elmira (and then Hartford) in spring 1871 and their departure from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.
During this time he wrote and...
Dorothy Dunnett’s Lymond Chronicles
The Enigma of Francis Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Since the first installment of Dunnett’s series was published in 1961, Francis Crawford of Lymond, the swashbuckling protagonist of the stories, has been captivating his fellow characters and readers alike. Instead of approaching the books primarily as historical fiction, Richardson, an enthusiastic...
The Confederate Constitution of 1861
An Inquiry into American Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1991
In The Confederate Constitution of 1861, Marshall DeRosa argues that the Confederate Constitution was not, as is widely believed, a document designed to perpetuate a Southern "slaveocracy," but rather an attempt by the Southern political leadership to restore the Anti-Federalist standards...
Bareface
A Guide to C.S. Lewis's Last Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
C. S. Lewis wanted to name his last novel “Bareface.” Now Doris T. Myers’s Bareface provides a welcome study of Lewis’s last, most profound, and most skillfully written novel, Till We Have Faces. Although many claim it is his best novel, Till We Have Faces is a radical departure from the fantasy...
America's Sailors in the Great War
Seas, Skies, and Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2016 Lyman Awards, presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History
This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I.
When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America’s sailors were immediately...
Reminiscences of Conrad S. Babcock
The Old U.S. Army and the New, 1898-1918
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
The son of an army officer, Conrad S. Babcock graduated from West Point in 1898, just in time for the opening of the Spanish-American War. Because of his father’s position, he managed to secure a place in the force that Major General Wesley Merritt led to Manila to secure the city. The Philippine...
by Robert H. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The idea of revising what is known of the past constitutes an essential procedure in historical scholarship, but revisionists are often hasty and argumentative in their judgments. Such, argues Robert H. Ferrell, has been the case with assessments of the presidency of Harry S. Truman, who was targeted...
by Robert H. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 1998
Available for the first time in paperback, The Strange Deaths of President Harding challenges readers to reexamine Warren G. Harding's rightful place in American history.
For nearly half a century, the twenty-ninth president of the United States has consistently finished last in polls ranking...
The Cinematic Voyage of THE PIRATE
Kelly, Garland, and Minnelli at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
During Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s glory days, the studio’s famous Arthur Freed Unit made an extraordinary string of dazzling musicals. One of its very best was The Pirate. Based on a successful 1942 Broadway production, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and starred Gene Kelly and Judy Garland....
The First Infantry Division and the U.S. Army Transformed
Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 1970-1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This fast-paced and compelling read closes a significant gap in the historiography of the late Cold War U.S. Army and is crucial for understanding the current situation in the Middle East.
From the author's introduction:
“My purpose is a narrative history of the 1st Infantry Division from...