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War and the novelist : appraising the American war novel
(University of Missouri Press, 1976)
This study, based on a comprehensive examination of a representative cross-section of the literature, attempts a fresh evaluation of the contemporary American War novel. Many of the authors discussed here have done more ...
The Argentine generation of 1880 : ideology and cultural texts
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
The political interests, the intellectual forces, and the attendant cultural activities associated with the project of providing Argentina with a specifically ninteenth-century Liberal identity are custumarily identified ...
The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
characteristically serves as a vehicle for exploring the psychological and philosophical ramifications of one root problem: the nature of the relationship between the perceiving subject and the object—be it another single individual or a whole ideological universe...
A Worldwide bibliography of Elateridae
(Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988)
Survey Course of Church Music
(1958)
This document outlines a survey conservatory course in the history of church music from the seventh century to the twentieth century.
The spirit of home in the literature of the Lower South
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: In 1867 Harte began writing stories of the West that were focused upon locality, employing in them a technique similar to that of Poe. He has been heralded as the first contributor to the literature of ...
Let it ride
(University of Missouri Press, 1991)
Written with the breathtaking beauty of the woods at night, 'Let It Ride' is a lyrical, witty celebration of the significance of the small things in our lives--children, insects, fleeting thoughts--by a writer of uncommon talent
The Bucareli Conference and United States-Mexican relations
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1966)
This dissertation attempts to explain the role of the Bucareli Conference in the contest between the United States and Mexico from 1914 to approximately 1930. It arose from an interest in the land and oil questions and ...
Place names in six of the west central counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1933)
Counties: Vernon, Bates, Cass, St. Clair, Henry, and Johnson...
Statement of the problem: This thesis is the record of careful research into the origin of the place-names of western counties of Missouri. Six counties, Vernon, Bates, Cass, St. Clair, Henry, and Johnson have been studied, and the origin of place...
Statement of the problem: This thesis is the record of careful research into the origin of the place-names of western counties of Missouri. Six counties, Vernon, Bates, Cass, St. Clair, Henry, and Johnson have been studied, and the origin of place...
A voice for justice : the Tuscaloosa News views the Autherine Lucy incident
(University of Missouri., 1958)
"This study, 'A voice for Justice--The Tuscaloosa News Views the Autherine Lucy Incident,' surveys the news and editorial presentation of the Alabama journal which found itself in the midst of a segregation issue during a ...
The natural gas controversy
(University of Missouri., 1956)
"During the first and second Session of the Eighty-Fourth Congress the natural gas controversy evolved into a vital national issue. Not only was the issue "hotly" contested in Congress but it was also highly controversial ...
Local free convection to non-Newtonian fluids from a horizontal, isothermal cylinder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
. These experimental results involved Newtonian fluids, and since that time volumes have been devoted to the subject. Only in recent years has attention been focused on the commonly encountered, yet rheologically more complex, non-Newtonian class of fluid. It is within...