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William Barclay Napton (1808-1883) was an editor, lawyer, and state supreme court justice who lived in Missouri. Drawn from personal journals, this book tells Napton's life story that offers a fresh perspective on the key issues and events that turned this northerner first into an avowed proslavery ideologue and then into a full southerner.

While there are many biographies of important Missouri men, there are few such biographies of Missouri women, which might suggest that they did not count in history. This book helps to correct that misconception by tracing the lives of four women who played important roles in their eras.

Features seven essays ranging across the topics of region and its history to assess the role of innovations which is presumed lacking by most historians. Offering an interpretation of industrialization in the South, this work shows that the benefits of innovations had to be carefully weighed against the costs to both industry and society.

In this collection of stories, a couple decide to give birth to their anencephalic baby and accept the consequences, a student trysts with his girlfriend at her father's house and witnesses the ultimate in paternal vengeance, and a schoolboy faces bullying while his mother struggles with cancer.

One hundred years after its writing, ""No 44, The Mysterious Stranger"" remains a literary enigma. This work covers an array of topics, from domesticity and transnationalism to race and religion, and reflects a variety of scholarly and theoretical approaches to the work.

The Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a compilation of the novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, and other published work by one of the 20th century's most prolific and influential African American authors. This volume contains the later of his Simple stories.

An exploration of the writing of Joseph Conrad, including his masterworks and the later, neglected fiction. The author addresses issues raised by recent theory, discussing the ways in which contemporary readers, indeed even himself, have come to read Conrad differently.

The ""Gazette"" girls were sisters, Gwen and Ardis Hamilton, and this is the story of how they bought and ran the local paper in Spickard, Missouri, in 1933. Although both young women had been trained in journalism, they were unprepared for the realities of running a county newspaper.

The first female television correspondent in Vietnam, US journalist Liz Trotta, traces her career in a male-dominated industry. This work recounts some of her most interesting stories - from Chappaquiddick to the campaign trail of George Bush.

A writer perhaps best known for the revolutionary works Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright also worked as a journalist during one of the most explosive periods of the 20th century. Byline, Richard Wright assembles more than one hundred articles plus two of Wright's essays from New Masses, revealing to readers the early work of an American icon.

Thad Snow (1881-1955) was an eccentric farmer and writer who was best known for his involvement in Missouri's 1939 Sharecropper Protest-a mass highway demonstration in which approximately eleven hundred demonstrators marched to two federal highways to illustrate the plight of the cotton labourers. Bonnie Stepenoff explores the world of Snow, providing a full portrait of him.

A collection of essays chiefly on British and American novels and novelists, each examining a different aspect of the novelist's art. The central issue is the way the writer does what he does. Studies of Charlotte Bronte, Henry James, D.H.Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Evelyn Waugh are included.

Presents a multigenre analysis encompassing fifty years of poetry, drama, essays, and prose fiction. This work offers insights into the impact of colonialism and dictatorship under Spanish rule and considers the fruits of ""independence"" under the regimes of Francisco Macias Nguema and Teodoro Obiang Nguema.

This is an examination of the fictional work of one of Latin America's most prolific, yet overlooked, writers. Born in Colombia to parents of mixed ancestry, Zapata Olivella uses his novels to explore the plight of the downtrodden in his nation and by extension the experience of blacks in other parts of the Americas.

Historians examining the Confederacy have often assumed the existence of a monolithic South unified behind the politics and culture of slavery. In addition, they have argued for the emergence of a strong central state government in the Confederacy. This book challenges such assumptions.

A study of Mark Twain's social and political attitudes. It traces the growth of Twain's convictions and shows his relationship to the age in which he lived. The text is based on research in newspapers of the day, personal letters and other material, as well as analysis of works by Twain.

This is the biography of William Beaumont, a 19th century doctor whose pioneering research on human digestion gained him international renown as a physiologist. The book details his medical career in the army, his experiments and research, and his publications.

This text examines the mystery around Warren G. Harding's death. After Harding's death a variety of attacks and unsubstantiated claims left the public with a tainted impression. This work examines the claims against this unpopular president and presents material to counter the accusations.

Project 9: The Birth of the Air Commandos in World War II by Dennis R. Okerstrom is a thoroughly researched narrative of the Allied joint project to invade Burma by air. Beginning with its inception at the Quebec Conference of 1943 and continuing through Operation Thursday until the death of the brilliant British General Orde Wingate in March 1944, less than a month after the successful invasion of Burma, Project 9 details all aspects of this covert mission, including the selection of the American airmen, the procurement of the aircraft, the joint training with British troops, and the dangerous night-time assault behind Japanese lines by glider.

During the 19th century, as British citizens left England for the New Worlds, hearth and home were moved from the heart of the Empire to its outskirts. This volume explores how this affected the ways in which Victorians both promoted and undermined the ideal of the domestic woman.