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Borden Brings American Librarianship to India
(Om Shanti Mandiram, 2013)
These literary gems -- notes and memoranda -- have remained buried in our files and folders for a long time. These were collected mostly by personal visits to New Haven (Conn) and Baroda during 1960's and 1970's and by ...
List of students and degrees, 1951
(University of Missouri, 1951)
Cold War and Black liberation : the United States and white rule in Africa, 1948-1968
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
For too long Africa has been the dark continent in the history of American foreign relations. Recent debate over the importance of human rights, however, has focused attention on that continent. Thomas Noer's study of ...
The great western land pirate : John A. Murrell in legend and history
(University of Missouri Press, 1981)
John A. Murrell lived in Tennessee when Andrew Jackson was president. According to legend, he was an able
man who had been raised to be a rascal by his unscrupulous mother. Flogged and imprisoned as a youth, he swore eternal ...
Charles James Fox: a man for the people
(University of Missouri Press, 1969)
The book grows out of a professional interest in Fox's talents as a parliamentary speaker. The scope, therefore, is that of a biography, with Fox's attainments as a speaker coming to the foreground at frequent intervals. ...
Old Southwest humor from the St. Louis reveille, 1844-1850
(University of Missouri Press, 1990)
This book collects selected humorous essays from the Daily Reveille, a St. Louis daily journal, from the years 1844-1850.
Commerce des lumières : John Oswald and the British in Paris, 1790-1793
(University of Missouri Press, 1986)
"My subject is the involvement of British intellectuals in revolutionary thought and action between the end of the American Revolution and the fourth year of the French Revolution. John Oswald, briefly famous as a herald ...
Fast talk & flush times : the confidence man as a literary convention
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
Lenz provides a historical overview of the American confidence man, and its role as a literary convention.
The mild reservationists and the League of Nations controversy in the Senate
(University of Missouri Press, 1989)
"What if the United States Senate had approved the Versailles Treaty and permitted the country to join the League of Nations that was being formed after the First World War? Would the course of history have been so altered ...
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 ...