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This collection of photographs portrays the diverse ethnic and cultural landscape of St Louis. Submissions from professional and amateur photographers from the area provide images of the architecture, landmarks, people and general daily life of the city.

This study of the Argentinian writer, Manuel Puig, is written for an English-speaking audience and analyzes aspects of his novels, summarizes the important body of criticism which is only available in Spanish, and provides a biographical sketch of the man.

This bulletin is one in a series published by the College of Arts and Science in which pertinent and interesting information that has been collected and analyzed in the research activities of regular departments of the College is made available to the public. The study of Missouri place names has been a project of Professor Robert L. Ramsay of the Department of English for a number of years. He has directed a series of eighteen masters theses in the field, and as a result of the research conducted by his students and through his own activities, a master file of Missouri place names has been prepared.This bulletin is only a sample of the information that has been collected and classified. The College of Arts and Science is making it available to the citizens of the State at a nominal price so that the public can have some knowledge and appreciation of this interesting and worthwhile study. The bulletin records a very significant part of our history and culture.

Depicts World War II - from its buildup to its aftermath - from the perspective of an average London citizen. This work features accounts of the Blitz and wartime deprivations, then of the postwar austerity programs, in passages that interweave daily terror with talk about theater, clothes, and family outings.

This work extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the 20th century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, it argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike bourgeois liberalism, has rejected the distinction between government and civil society.

Missouri has been likened to a ""cave factory"" because its limestone bedrock can be slowly dissolved by groundwater to form caverns, and the state boasts more than six thousand caves in an unbelievable variety of sizes, lengths, and shapes. This work records a cultural heritage stretching from the end of the ice age to the twenty-first century.

Although his contributions to philosophy are revered and his writings have been collected, Eric Voegelin's persona can fade with the memories of those who knew him. This book preserves the human element of Voegelin by capturing those personal recollections. Through these recollections, it provides an understanding of the man himself.

Growing up in Indiana, the author was enthralled by trains and especially dreamt of one day riding the Pennsylvania Railroad's all-Pullman flagship Spirit of St Louis. This title presents his many trips along the legendary rails of America and traces the evolution of American passenger trains since 1950s.

Applies the insights of Eric Voegelin to modern terrorism. The author points out that the chief omission from most contemporary studies of terrorism is an analysis of the ""spiritual motivation"". The book concludes with a chapter on the uniqueness of terrorist networks, their limitations, and the means by which they can be dealt with.

Provides a look at the life and career of Joseph Pulitzer III, using correspondence, records and interviews with more than seventy individuals who knew and/or worked with Pulitzer. This will be of interest to scholars of journalism and media history, American history, as well as those interested in the tribulations of family businesses.

Presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West.

This memoir provides a record of army culture in the first decades of the twentieth century can now reach a new generation of scholars. Babcock's original manuscript has been shortened by Robert H. Ferrell into eight chapters which illustrate the tremendous shift in warfare in the years surrounding the turn of the century.

Explores the legacy of one of the most exceptional athletes ever - an entertainer extraordinaire, a daring showman and crowd-pleaser, a wizard with a baseball whose artistry and antics on the mound brought fans out in the thousands to ballparks across the country: Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, arguably one of the world's greatest pitchers.

Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally 'half American'? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? In Soldiers and Statesmen, John S. D. Eisenhower answers these questions and more, offering his personal reflections on great leaders of our time.

In 1978, William Least Heat-Moon made a 14,000-mile journey on the back roads of America, visiting 38 states along the way. In 1982, the popular Blue Highways, which chronicled his adventures, was published. Three decades later, Edgar Ailor III and his son, Edgar IV, retraced and photographed Heat-Moon's route, culminating in Blue Highways Revisited, released for publication on the thirtieth anniversary of Blue Highways. A foreword by Heat-Moon notes, "The photographs, often with amazing accuracy, capture my verbal images and the spirit of the book. Taking the journey again through these pictures, I have been intrigued and even somewhat reassured that America is changing not quite so fast as we often believe. The photographs, happily, reveal a recognizable continuity - but for how much longer who can say - and I'm glad the Ailors have recorded so many places and people from Blue Highways while they are yet with us." Through illustrative photography and text, Ailor and his son capture once more the local color and beauty of the back roads, cafes, taverns, and people of Heat-Moon's original trek. Almost every photograph in Blue Highways Revisited is referenced to a page in the original work. With side-by-side photographic comparisons of eleven of Heat-Moon's characters, this new volume reflects upon and develops the memoir of Heat-Moon's cross-country study of American culture and spirit. Photographs of Heat-Moon's logbook entries, original manuscript pages, Olympia typewriter, Ford van, and other artifacts also give readers insight into Heat-Moon's approach to his trip. Discussions with Heat-Moon about these archival images provide the reader insight into the travels and the writing of Blue Highways that only the perspective of the author could provide. Blue Highways Revisited reaffirms that the "blue highway" serves as a romantic symbol of the free and restless American spirit, as the Ailors lose themselves to the open road as Heat-Moon did thirty years previously. This book reminds readers of the insatiable attraction of the "blue highway"--"But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dusk--times neither day or night--the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they carry a mysterious cast of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself" (Introduction to Blue Highways).

Presents the first comprehensive look at relations between Spain and the two antagonists of the American Civil War. Using Spanish, US and Confederate sources, Bowen provides multiple perspectives of critical events during the Civil War, including Confederate attempts to bring Spain and other European nations into the war; reactions to those attempts; and Spain's revived imperial fortunes.

When Ira Sukrungruang was born to Thai parents newly arrived in the US, they picked his Jewish moniker out of a book of "American" names. In this lively, entertaining, and often hilarious memoir, he relates the early life of a first-generation Thai-American and his constant, often bumbling attempts to reconcile cultural and familial expectations with the trials of growing up in 1980s America.

To defend the essay - that misunderstood staple of first-year composition courses - Ned Stuckey-French has written The American Essay in the American Century. This book uncovers the buried history of the American personal essay and reveals how it played a significant role in twentieth-century cultural history.

Major General Clarence Ransom Edwards is a vital figure in American military history, yet his contribution to the US efforts in World War I has often been ignored or presented in unflattering terms. But Clarence Edwards, though often a divisive figure, was a revered and admired officer. Michael E. Shay presents a complete portrait of this notable American and his many merits.

Challengez conventional perceptions of the antebellum US South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners.

This is concerned with how art, and especially poetry, functions as a vehicle of spiritual expression in today's modern cultures. It considers the meeting points of art, poetry, religion, and philosophy, in part through examining the treatments of consciousness, transcendence, and art in the writings of twentieth-century philosophers Eric Voegelin and Bernard Lonergan.