University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
Prophesying Daughters
Black Women Preachers and the Word, 1823-1913
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2003
In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God. Descendants of slaves or former “slave girls” themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of various races, denominations,...
Military Realism
The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture...
Listening Deeply
An Approach to Understanding and Consulting in Organizational Culture, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Listening deeply is the foundation of all effective organizational management, research, and consulting. This book explores the many aspects of attentive listening through storytelling and includes examples of organizational case studies. In Stein’s practice, listening deeply is an attitude evoked...
Footsteps on the Ice
The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd Expedition
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
In 1933 Antarctica was essentially unexplored. Admiral Richard Byrd launched his Second Expedition to chart the southernmost continent, primarily relying on the muscle power of dog teams and their drivers who skied or ran beside the loaded sledges as they traveled. The life-threatening challenges...
Architecture by Moonlight
Rebuilding Haiti, Redrafting a Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
When a natural disaster strikes, one imposing obstacle always impedes recovery: the need to rebuild. Not just homes, schools, and other buildings but also lives must be reconstructed. Yet amid the horror there is also the opportunity to build back better, to create more resilient buildings and deeper...
by Linda M. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Charles Dickens once commented that in each of his Christmas stories there is “an express text preached on . . . always taken from the lips of Christ.” This preaching, Linda M. Lewis contends, does not end with his Christmas stories but extends throughout the body of his work. In Dickens,...
Women Escaping Violence
Empowerment through Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The statistics are alarming. Some say that once every nine minutes a woman in the United States is beaten by her spouse or partner. Others claim that once every four minutes a woman in the world is beaten by her spouse or partner. More women go to emergency rooms in the United States for injuries...
The Strange Death of Marxism
The European Left in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
The Strange Death of Marxism seeks to refute certain misconceptions about the current European Left and its relation to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist parties that existed in the recent past. Among the misconceptions that the book treats critically and in detail is that the Post-Marxist Left (a term...
Devotion to the Adopted Country
U.S. Immigrant Volunteers in the Mexican War
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
In Devotion to the Adopted Country, Tyler V. Johnson looks at the efforts of America’s Democratic Party and Catholic leadership to use the service of immigrant volunteers in the U.S.–Mexican War as a weapon against nativism and anti-Catholicism. Each chapter focuses on one of the five major events...
Off the Rim
Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
“Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?” Fred Hobson thus begins Off the Rim, his narrative of college basketball and society, of...
Mark Twain & France
The Making of a New American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be “American” in the second half of the nineteenth century.
While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s...
Protest and Propaganda
W. E. B. Du Bois, the CRISIS, and American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
In looking back on his editorship of Crisis magazine*,* W. E. B. Du Bois said, “We condensed more news about Negroes and their problems in a month than most colored papers before this had published in a year.” Since its founding by Du Bois in 1910, Crisis has been the primary published voice of...
Shooting Polaris
A Personal Survey in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Shooting Polaris is John Hales’s fascinating and far-reaching account of working as a government surveyor in the southern Utah desert. In it, he describes his search for a place in the natural world, beginning with an afternoon spent tracking down a lost crew member who cracked up on the job and...
What Wars Leave Behind
The Faceless and the Forgotten
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
They bear labels instead of names—noncombatant, unintended victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. And when soldiers, media, and profiteers move on to the next conflict, they stay behind to cope amid the wreckage. They have...