University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Aristocracy in America
From the Sketch-Book of a German Nobleman
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between...
Nixon's First Cover-up
The Religious Life of a Quaker President
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Have you ever thought you completely knew a story, inside and out, only to see some new information that shatters what you had come to accept as unquestioned fact? Well, Richard Nixon is that story, and Nixon’s First Cover-up is that new information.
With few exceptions, the religious ideologies...
Colonization After Emancipation
Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
History has long acknowledged that President Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, had considered other approaches to rectifying the problem of slavery during his administration. Prior to Emancipation, Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to another...
by Nicholas Trajano Molnar
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The American mestizos, a group that emerged in the Philippines after it was colonized by the United States, became a serious social concern for expatriate Americans and Filipino nationalists far disproportionate to their actual size, confounding observers who debated where they fit into the racial...
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...
by Wayne H. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Well-deployed primary sources and brisk writing by Wayne H. Bowen make this an excellent framework for understanding the evolution of U.S. policy toward Spain, and thus how a nation facing a global threat develops strategic relationships over time.
President Harry S. Truman harbored an abiding...
The Struggle for the Soul of Journalism
The Pulpit versus the Press, 1833-1923
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion’s historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven...
The New Woman Gothic
Reconfigurations of Distress
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Drawing from and reworking Gothic conventions, the New Woman version is marshaled during a tumultuous cultural moment of gender anxiety either to defend or revile the complex character. The controversial and compelling figure of the New Woman in fin de siècle Britishfiction has garnered extensive...
by Tracy Wuster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor...
Growing Up in a Land Called Honalee
The Sixties in the Lives of American Children
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This study examines how the multiple social, cultural, and political changes between John Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961 and the end of American involvement in Vietnam in 1973 manifested themselves in the lives of preadolescent American children.
Because the preadolescent years are, according...
by Heidi L. Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the...
NATO and the UN
A Peculiar Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed just four years after the United Nations, it provided its members with a measure of security in the face of the Soviet Union’s veto power in the senior organization’s Security Council, as well as a means of coping with Communist expansion....
A New Basis for Animal Ethics
Telos and Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This book, the culmination of forty years of theorizing about the moral status of animals, explicates and justifies society’s moral obligation to animals in terms of the commonsense metaphysics and ethics ofAristotle’s concept of telos. Rollin uses this concept to assert that humans have a responsibility...
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...