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Big ideas in little boxes : nation building in three nineteenth-century American parlor games by Milton Bradley and Company
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Milton Bradley and Company manufactured its first game, The Checkered Game of Life, in 1860, only months before the American Civil War broke out. Soon after, it produced the Myriopticon A Historical Panorama of the Rebellion, ...
You’ve got mail : epistolography, mapping, and authenticity in early literature of Alexander the Great
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2017)
The Alexander Romance is a conglomerate of many different stories and traditions mingling the historical life of Alexander the Great with fantastic legends. It is not wholly historical, but it is also not wholly legendary; ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 26, number 24 (March 31, 2005)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2005)
The elite media framing the emerging markets : a textual analysis of Mongolian case in the Wall Street Journal
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This textual analysis addresses how The Wall Street Journal framed Mongolian economic and political image in the global capital market from 2012 to ...
Ars coquinaria: a study of early Roman cooking wares and their uses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Cooking ware is important for studying how people around the Early Roman Empire cooked and ate. As utilitarian ware, it did not change drastically for ...
Re-matriculation in the studio arts : what are the perceptions of mid-life non-traditional students in graduate fine arts?
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
frontier that among other things offered them a second opportunity to access institutions of higher learning with the purpose of exploring their creative gifts. From the rich tapestry of narratives came tales of self-reflection perhaps common to us all....
Getting to Know Rodgers and Hammerstein: Education and Adaptation in 21st-century performance
(2020)
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II forever changed the face of American musical theatre when Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. This collaboration is often cited by historians as the first fully-integrated book ...
The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The aim of this work is to address the development of experiential Protestantism
in the nineteenth century, commonly called Pietism, through the theological contributions
of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, ...
Talking turkey : visual media and the unraveling of Thanksgiving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Standing at the core of American culture, Thanksgiving is an invented tradition celebrated by millions of Americans. This dissertation examines contemporary representations of Thanksgiving in "the media of everyday life" ...
A thousand TV shows : applying a rhizomatic lens to television genres
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
One frequent technique for studying television is through genre. However, with the complex television environment of the 21st century, many genre studies do not adequately account for how generic television programs intersect ...
Sites of trauma, bodies of recovery: the work of contemporary South African artist Jane Alexander
(2019)
Sites of Trauma, Bodies of Recovery: The Work of Contemporary South African Artist Jane Alexander explores the interconnections between the aesthetics of trauma in post-apartheid culture, history, and politics through the ...
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
St. Louis's German brewing industry : its rise and fall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The rapid rise of St. Louis from eighteenth-century frontier outpost to turn of the century metropolis was due in no small part to its German community. During the middle of the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Germans immigrated to St. Louis...
Mizzou, volume 102, number 2 (2014 Winter)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2014)
Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961) lost his right arm during
World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to
Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano ...
Concealed authorship on the eve of the revolution : pseudonymity and the American periodical public sphere, 1766-1776
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Concealed authorship played a vital role in the critical ten years prior to American independence. Authors utilized printers as cover to publish political essays seditious and disruptive to British authority. Pseudonymity, ...
Mizzou weekly, volume 27, number 23 (March 9, 2006)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. University Affairs. Publications and Alumni Communication., 2006)