Books published by University of Missouri Press

A rich body of mythology and literature has grown around the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara or ""marriage of sovereignty"". This book explores Seamus Heaney's use of the family of sovereignty motifs and redresses the imbalance of criticism that has overemphasized the theme of sacrifice to the detriment of more optimistic symbols.

This text is a comprehensive assessment of baseball legend Stan Musial's life and career. The book places the star within his time - the Great Depression and wartime and postwar America - and the issues then prevalent in professional baseball, particularly race and economic issues.

Offers an insider's look at the justice system, taking readers from the scene of the crime to the courtroom, exploring the worlds of judges, attorneys, police officers, and criminals. In cases ranging from indecent exposure to conspiracy to commit murder, this work considers the fine line between pornography and obscenity.

Assesses Harry Truman's relationships with the farming community and with politicians of both parties and analyzes the complex problems facing those concerned about the welfare of the American farm. It looks at the "Brannan Plan" to examine the farm policy dilemma and Truman's quest for a long-range agricultural program.

Drawing on interviews with former NATO ambassadors, alliance military leaders, and senior NATO officials, the author shows that these leaders played critical roles when military force was used and were often instrumental in promoting transatlantic consensus. He offers readers an understanding of the alliance's post-Cold War transformation.

The 43th volume of The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin consists of Voegelin's Autobiographical Reflections, reprinted from the 1989 edition with additional annotations; a glossary of terms used in Voegelin's writings, illustrated with examples from throughout the Collected Works; a volume index; and a cumulative index.

Paul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879), one of America's greatest 19th-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham's artistic achievements, he also portrays another and very important part of the artist's career - his service as a statesman and political leader in Missouri.

Missouri's mineral springs and resorts played a vital role in the social and economic development of the state. Loring Bullard delves into the long history of these springs and spas, concentrating particularly on the use and development of the mineral springs from 1800 to about the 1930s.

Created as a companion for the fourth-grade textbook ""Missouri Then and Now"" by Perry McCandless and William E. Foley, this workbook provides students additional insight into Missouri's rich history with cognitive activities and writing assignments.

One of two volumes which bring together Voegelin's miscellaneous papers, this text gathers crucial writings from the early formative period of this scholar's thought. It begins with Voegelin's dissertation on sociological method, which he completed in 1922.

An illustrated architectural exploration of the history of 12 prominent mansions in the Midwest. Although most early governors did not live in mansions, staying instead in boarding houses or hotels, over time states recognized the need to provide more appropriate lodging for their chief executives.

This volume brings to the forefront the suffering endured by Louisianians during and after the American Civil War - hardships more severe than those suffered by most of the Confederacy. The essays deal with the differing segments of Louisiana's society and their interactions with each other.

Jesse B. Simple sprang to life in Langston Hughes's weekly ""Chicago Defender"" column in 1943. This is an examination of Hughes's ""Simple stories"". Through the conversations between Simple and his foil, Boyd, Hughes makes clear that both are alike - black men in a racially unbalanced society.

During World War II, Primo Levi, an Italian chemist and resistance writer in Turin, was swept up in the Holocaust and sent to Auschwitz. After liberation of the camp, Levi was one of few survivors and wrote books about his experiences. This text shows Levi to be an important political philosopher.

This text presents a major analysis of the foundation of Eric Voegelin's political science. The writings of Voegelin undertook in the 1940s provide the groundwork for this book.

This study of the work of Charles Johnson, the African-American writer who began as a political cartoonist, examines how Johnson incorporates the influences of phenomenology, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and Romanticism into an original perspective on individual and social identity.

Argentina's return to constitutional democracy in 1983 initiated a five-year cultural renaissance and film-making flourished. David Foster examines 10 important films made in that period and sets them in the context of Argentina's redemocratization and a range of social topics.

Missouri has been likened to a ""cave factory"" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns, and the state boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes, lengths, and shapes. This work records a cultural heritage stretching from the end of the ice age to the twenty-first century.

This memoir provides a record of army culture in the first decades of the twentieth century can now reach a new generation of scholars. Babcock's original manuscript has been shortened by Robert H. Ferrell into eight chapters which illustrate the tremendous shift in warfare in the years surrounding the turn of the century.

More than a study of Mark Twain's language, this book delves into the psychological aspects of metaphor to reveal the writer's attitudes and thoughts, showing how using metaphor as a guide to Twain reveals much about his composition process. It offers readers not only insights into Twain but also an introduction to this interdisciplinary field.

The Missouria people were the first American Indians encountered by European explorers venturing up the Pekitanoui River. The state and Missouri River are namesakes of these historic Indians, but little of the tribe's history is known today. Michael Dickey tells the story of these indigenous Americans in The People of the River's Mouth.

From the exquisite beauty along the Ozark National Scenic Riverways to the whimsical humour of street sculpture in St Louis and Kansas City, to the gleeful faces of children enjoying a fall festival, this collection of photographs attempts to capture the entire breadth of the state of Missouri.

The heart of professional baseball, if not its roots, may be found in the American Midwest, especially in Missouri. In Seasons in the Sun, Roger D. Launius offers an excellent overview of the teams, pennant races, trials, and triumphs of the different major-league teams that have resided in the state over the years.

In this collection of stories, Ruth Hamel uses a blend of humour, irony and telling detail to explore the lies that people tell each other - not just the fibs, prevarications and exaggerations, but the deceptions that spring from deliberate silence.