Truman State University Press: 145 books
Prospects of Greatness
The Rise of Cities in the Midwest during the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In the mid-nineteenth century, the north central United States was producing crops and livestock that fed much of the country, and most people in the region lived on farms or in small towns. The region had only a few larger cities, which were located on the region's web of rivers and provided transportation...
Merchants of Independence
International Trade on the Santa Fe Trail, 18271860
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
In the frontier town of Independence, Missouri, a commercial route for goods to and from Europe developed into a sophisticated international network of overland trade with Mexico. To trade goods, western Missouri entrepreneurs relied on the cooperative support and interactions of Anglos, Hispanos, Native...
by Terry Ann Thaxton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A landscape of pine forests, palmettos, gopher tortoises, and armadillos contains the clues that guide Terry Ann Thaxton’s search for herself. As a fifth-generation Floridian, she knows, however, that the natural world is never more than a stone’s throw away from its destruction. The path she...
Chivalry and the Perfect Prince
Tournaments, Art, and Armor at the Spanish Habsburg Court
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader...
High Anxiety
Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
This collection explores the evolution of notions about masculinity during the intense crisis of Renaissance and early modern France. Authors of the period reflect the anxieties about masculinity that became more pronounced against the backdrop of major events and innovations of the period: the religious...
Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France
Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The study of history is a fundamentally sociable practice, with the exchange of ideas taking place in writing, over the seminar table, and often in informal discussions over food. These essays grew out of a web of sociability centered around French historian Robert Descimon, and focus on the nexus...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
This volume illustrates the busy and conflicted career of Vermigli, who left his beloved Italy in 1542, one step ahead of the Inquisition, to spend twenty years in three centers of Reform: Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich. This collection serves not only to display the more personal side of Vermigli,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This volume presents essays from eight scholars who trained with Robert Kingdon, a vanguard of early modern studies. He required students to go to primary sources, yet they were free to pursue their own curiosity. No matter what their approach to the sources, students were held to a high standard...
by Christopher Cokinos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this brooding and daring collection of lyric prose set on the lush prairie of eastern Kansas, writer and naturalist Christopher Cokinos explores the dangers of falling too much in love with the outer world as a way of escaping a deeply fraught marriage. In landscapes both broken and bountiful, he...
by Carol V. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
In her new poetry collection, Carol V. Davis crosses cultural and geographic boundaries to explore her family’s history as Jews, as outsiders, as immigrants. Ranging from Los Angeles to Nebraska to Germany to Russia, she probes the boundaries between faith, folklore and superstition, trying to find...
by Lori Horvitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Lori Horvitz grew up ashamed of her Eastern European Jewish roots, confused about her sexuality, and idolizing the "shiksa in her living room," a blonde all-American girl whose photo came in a double frame and was displayed next to a family photo from a bar mitzvah. Unable to join the "happy blonde families,"...
Religious Differences in France
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This volume examines the history of religious dissent and discord in France from the time of the Wars of Religion to the present day. Contributors analyze the various solutions elaborated by the government, by religious institutions, and by private groups in response to the serious problems raised by...
Reforming French Protestantism
The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions, 15571572
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Theology encounters history and culture in sixteenth-century France in this examination of French Protestantism. The analysis reveals how Calvinism's growing influence led to the unification of French Protestant churches despite the opposition of the royalty. The interaction between newly adopted...
Choosing Death
Suicide and Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties...