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A very special place in life : the history of juvenile justice in Missouri
(Missouri Juvenile Justice Association, 2003)
Professor Abrams chronicles the nineteenth century struggle for a special court to rehabilitate delinquent and dependent children and their families. The leaders were dedicated reformers- the "child savers" who sought to ...
Trip report, 1987
(1987)
The following reports by members of the faculty of the four campuses of the University of Missouri System and the University of Western Cape, located in Bellville, South Africa, are the result of participation in a faculty ...
A union list of learned American serials in Indian libraries
(Indian Council for Library Development, 1966)
The Union List of learned Anerican Serials in Indian Libraries (ULLAS) was compiled through a generous grant of Rs. 80,000/- (16,000 dollars) by the U. S. Government in India to the Indian Council for Library Development. ...
Shakespeare's vast romance : a study of The winter's tale
(University of Missouri Press, 1980)
In the past few decades, no group of Shakespeare's plays has increased more in public and scholarly esteem than the four late comedies - Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winters Tale, and The Tempest - generally collected in modern ...
Charles Perrault : memoirs of my life
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
It is impossible to know whether Perrault intended the Memoirs to be published. There are early references to "your uncles," identifying Perrault's children as his immediate audience; however, he offered nothing about his ...
The poetic fiction of José Lezama Lima
(University of Missouri Press, 1983)
Lezama Lima's works undoubtedly form an important and major body of literature, and critical interest in his publications continues to grow. However, his challenging and innovative writings require patient reading if one ...
Paper flowers; a play in six scenes
(University of Missouri Press, 1971)
Paper Flowers [Flores de papel] has recently
been published in Spain and also in Cuba, where it won the 1970 Casa de las Americas theatre award, Latin America's most prestigious prize. As the 1970 recipient, Paper Flowers ...
A great and necessary measure : George Grenville and the genesis of the Stamp Act, 1763-1765
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
George Grenville could have upheld Parliament's
sovereignty, raised a revenue, reduced smuggling, and asserted British control over the colonies by lowering the duty on foreign molasses imported into America from sixpence ...
La Revista ilustrada de Nueva York : history, anthology, and index of literary selections
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
The numerous Spanish-language periodicals that were published in the United States during the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the early years of the twentieth provide a fascinating but much-overlooked view ...
Structures of domination and peasant movements in Latin America
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
Although the results of Latin American peasant movements appeared particularly impressive in the 1960s and the 1970S, the end of the decade witnessed the progressive repression of the major movements on the continent. Latin ...
Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James : the impossible romance
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The unrivaled power and tension in the best works of Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James are derived precisely from the authors' imaginative experimentation with the dialectic structure of this perpetual opposition. Unlike ...
The new citizenship : origins of progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900
(University of Missouri Press, 1972)
This is a book about people with different ideas about democracy from those that prevail today. Wisconsin's early progressives would have been astonished by the focus historians have placed on producer identifications. ...
It's good to tell you : French folktales from Missouri
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
The stories told in this book, like the stories on television, illustrate the triumph of good over evil; the rewards of heroism and virtue; and the endurance of the human spirit when faced with tragedy and catastrophe. In ...
Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici and two seventeenth century critics
(University of Missouri Press, 1973)
Browne has become so traditionally a part of the history and texture of classic English prose style that we sometimes unconsciously undervalue his ideas and their power to arouse dispute in his time. The primary purpose ...
David Rice Atchison of Missouri, border politician
(University of Missouri Press, 1961)
It is the purpose of this study to trace the public career of David Rice Atchison from his early cases in a frontier courtroom to his last defense of Southern rights in Kansas which ended in ultimate defeat and undeserved ...
Fascists, communists, and the national government : civil liberties in Great Britain, 1931-1937
(University of Missouri Press, 1983)
Britain witnessed a milder brand of fascism and communism than
did most other European countries. Neither the extreme Left nor the extreme Right ever assumed proportions that directly threatened the regime or even approached ...
Forms of the novel in the work of Camilo Jose Cela
(University of Missouri Press, 1967)
Before proceeding to an examination of Cela's works, mention of the critical orientation of this study may prove of some assistance to the reader. My primary intent is to discuss the novels in order to underline the "proteic" ...
Omkāra-Māndhātā-Mukti-Dhāma: a paradise for pilgrims
(University of Missouri International Library Center, 2006)
OM, the sacred monosyllabic symbol of Parabrahma Param¡tman, is the pious and holy name of the Supreme Lord. It is cryptic, majestic, mighty, mystic, mysterious, sacred, sacrosanct, secret and transcendental by nature. It ...
Indian Library Scene as seen at the dawn of independence
(University of Missouri International Library Center, 1990)
"Indian Library Scene as seen at the Dawn of Independence" is a study of libraries and librarianship in India. The study had many goals, including: to make an historical study of the origin, growth and development of ...