University Of Missouri imprint: 246 books
Journeys to the Edge
In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying...
Not at All What One Is Used To
The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Born in 1915 to one of New England’s elite wealthy families, Isabella Gardner was expected to follow a certain path in life—one that would take her from marriageable debutante to proper society lady. But that plan was derailed when at age eighteen, Isabella caused a drunk-driving accident. Her...
Damn Near White
An African American Family's Rise from Slavery to Bittersweet Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Carolyn Wilkins grew up defending her racial identity. Because of her light complexion and wavy hair, she spent years struggling to convince others that she was black. Her family’s prominence set Carolyn’s experiences even further apart from those of the average African American. Her father and...
by Ned Stuckey-French
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old...
In the Company of Generals
The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Pierpont Stackpole was a Boston lawyer who in January 1918 became aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, soon to be commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole’s diary, published here for the first time, is a major eyewitness account of the American Expeditionary Forces’ experience...
Dogface Soldier
The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
On July 11, 1943, General Lucian Truscott received the Army's second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross, for valor in action in Sicily. During his career he also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of...
Unjustly Dishonored
An African American Division in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
For nearly one hundred years, the 92nd Division of the U.S. Army in World War I has been remembered as a military failure. The division should have been historically significant. It was the only African American division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France. Comprised of nearly twenty-eight...
Omar Nelson Bradley
America's GI General, 1893-1981
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
When Omar Nelson Bradley began his military career more than a century ago, the army rode horses into combat and had less than 200,000 men. No one had heard of mustard gas. At the height of his career, Bradley (known as “Brad” and “The GI’s General”) led 1.23 million men as commander of...
A Tale of Two Colonies
What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown.John Smith fought to keep order, battling both English and Indians. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Surviving accounts of the “Starving Time” differ,...
Your Brother in Arms
A Union Soldier's Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
George P. McClelland, a member of the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry in the Civil War, witnessed some of the war’s most pivotal battles during his two and a half years of Union service. Death and destruction surrounded this young soldier, who endured the challenges of front line combat in the conflict...
Modernist Travel Writing
Intellectuals Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad, by David Farley, addresses this gap by examining the ways in which a number of writers employed the techniques and stylistic...
by Ronald D. Srigley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus’ contributions to political and cultural analysis make him one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Camus’ writing has been heavily researched and analyzed in academia, with many scholars concentrating on the formal tri-part structure he adhered...
Eric Voegelin and the Continental Tradition
Explorations in Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Twentieth-century political philosopher Eric Voegelin is best known as a severe critic of modernity. Much of his work argues that modernity is a Gnostic revolt against the fundamental structure of reality. For Voegelin, “Gnosticism” is the belief that human beings can transform the nature of reality...
The Philosopher and the Storyteller
Eric Voegelin and Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Throughout his philosophical career, Eric Voegelin had much to say about literature in both his published work and his private letters. Many of his most trenchant comments regarding the analysis of literature appear in his correspondence with critic Robert Heilman, and, through his familiarity with...