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Intersubjective understanding of violence: the lifeworld of Tajik immigrant workers in post-Soviet Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of violence in the context of labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia. It examines the legal framework for migration policy and asks how sociology can understand the experience of violence and how social...
University catalog, 2013-14
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Missouri Shamrock, 1955-1956, volume 22, number 1-8
(University of Missouri. College of Engineering, 1955)
Roman Egypt : change amid continuity in the art and architecture of an Eastern Imperial Province
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Roman province of Aegyptus has most often been considered from an administrative, governmental, or economic perspective while its art and architecture has usually been...
From Revolution To Ruin: A Preliminary Look at Rwanda’s First Two Presidents, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal Habyarimana, and Their Administrations
(2015)
This paper brings together primary and secondary materials from a vast number of sources
related to the first two presidents of Rwanda, Grégoire Kayibanda and Juvénal
Habyarimana, in a preliminary look at the men and ...
Power from the people : tenant activism in the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex, 1950-1980
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Built in the mid-1950s in St. Louis, Missouri, the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex was constructed as the future of high-rise public housing design but was quickly labeled as a problem for local housing officials. Counter...
From Pan to Plate: Cased Images of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1865
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
After President Polk’s announcement in December 1848 of the gold discovery in
California, thousands flocked to the region. Lured by the ready market of potential
customers, daguerreotypists also made their way. The ...
Killing them with kindness: a meso-dialectical study of the conceptual formation of humane and inhumane in the no-kill animal shelter movement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research begins with one question: What is humane about humane? In the context of the no-kill animal shelter movement this study examines the social processes through which...
Twenty towns : their histories, town plans, and architecture (1985)
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division., 1985)
"This book reports on the statewide project Town Puzzles: Putting the Pieces Together, which originated in the Department of Community Development and was conducted in 1983-1984 through the University of Missouri-Columbia Extension Division. In each...
Thomas Stothard : the mechanisms of art patronage in England circa 1800
(University of Missouri Press, 1988)
Thomas Stothard (1755-1834) was probably the most prolific illustrator of his times, executing
designs for everything from landscape, sculpture, and history painting to ceramics, silverwork, and book illustration. The ...
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 ...
Administrative behavior : an annotated bibliography with emphasis on public administration
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Extension Division, 1968)
"No new observation is being made when it is said that information retrieval is one of the problems which academicians and practitioners alike find most pressing. This bibliography of research abstracts is designed to facilitate the location...
Under the big top : big tent revivalism and American culture, 1880-1925
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] What was the relationship between itinerate evangelism and the rapidly changing American society and culture at the turn of the twentieth-century? The incredible popularity...
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 ...
Between God and Mammon : politics, class conflict, and the southern Irish state, 1922-45
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] Although it is well understood that working-class politics and the political Left have been marginal forces in Irish political life, the question "Why?" has been underexamined, often attributed ...
Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England : Mr. Newdegate and the nuns
(University of Missouri Press, 1982)
This book explores the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the period from 1850 to 1874, focusing on Parliament Member Charles Newdigate Newdegate and his crusade against male and female Catholic religious orders.
A qualitative case study deconstructing teachers' decisions in the pre-active stage of teaching to illuminate considerations made for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge
(2019)
The purpose of this heuristic case study was to develop a deeper understanding of how middle-level teachers in one Midwestern middle school account for teaching 21st-century skills and knowledge, within the context of a ...
A Sanskrit Librarian Comes to America
(University of Missouri International Library Center, 1999)
The following is a collection of papers written during a long period of more than four decades in the fields of Sanskrit literature, library science and Indo-American cultural cooperation. No attempt has been made to revise them. They are being...