University Of Missouri Press: 246 books
Benevolence, Moral Reform, Equality
Women's Activism in Kansas City, 1870 to 1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
David Hanzlick traces the rise and evolution of women’s activism in a rapidly growing, Midwestern border city, one deeply scarred by the Civil War and struggling to determine its meaning. Over the course of 70 years, women in Kansas City emerged from the domestic sphere by forming and working in...
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...
Bread
A Memoir of Hunger
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
When she was 54, Lisa Knopp’s weight dropped to a number on the scale that she hadn’t seen since seventh grade. The severe food restricting that left her thin and sick when she was 15 and 25 had returned. This time, she was determined to understand the causes of her malady and how she could heal...
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...
Meeting Sophie
A Memoir of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2003
The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair.
This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches...
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...
by Chad R. Fulwider
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In the fading evening light of August 4, 1914, Great Britain’s H.M.S. Telconia set off on a mission to sever the five transatlantic cables linking Germany and the United States. Thus Britain launched its first attack of World War I and simultaneously commenced what became the war’s most decisive...
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...
The Dysfunctional Workplace
Theory, Stories, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
This book explores an aspect of organizational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall. Stories invite reflection and the development of greater understanding of organizational dynamics. This fresh scholarship provides a theoretical framework for discussion. Throughout...
Teaching in the Terrordome
Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Only 50 percent of kids growing up in poverty will earn a high school diploma. Just one in ten will graduate college. Compelled by these troubling statistics, Heather Kirn Lanier joined Teach For America (TFA), a program that thrusts eager but inexperienced college graduates into America’s most...