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| AFTER GREECE [Christopher Bakken] Winner of the 2001 T S Eliot prize. An account of travel and a collection of ecstatic lyrics, these poems excavate an idea of place, one layered deep for the poet and archaeologist to discover. We encounter the obsessions of a hellenic barbarian -- of an American poet residing in, not touring, an environment haunted by profane revelations and sacred commonplaces. We move beyond the crowded sites and restored monuments, to places where the presence of the ancient world is still palpable in the violent realities of the modern Balkans. Looking through these poems into artefacts and ruined places, we hear 'spirits of that barren landscape call out still', and we feel, again and again, what connects us to the past is stronger than what separates us from it. { 62pp, 150x225mm, November 2001; £9.99, 1931112010:9781931112017 , Truman State University Press } |
| ALBERT GIRAUD'S 'PIERROT LUNAIRE' [Gregory C Richter] This is the first English translation of Belgian poet Albert Giraud's collection of fifty poems, Pierrot Lunaire: Rondels Bergamasques (1884). Giraud's work was translated into German by Otto Erich Hartleben, and twenty-one of those poems were used by Arnold Schoenberg in his masterpiece [Pierrot Lunaire] (1912) -- one of the defining compositions of the twentieth century. These English renderings reveal the extent to which Hartleben introduced changes as he translated the work. Taken as a whole, this trilingual edition suggests how the French fin de siècle served as a model for the early-twentieth-century German avant-garde, which culminated in Schoenberg's masterpiece. { 122pp, 150x225mm, February 2002; PB, £10.99, 1931112029:9781931112024 , Truman State University Press } |
| ALLIES OF THE EARTH : Railroads & the Soul of Preservation [Alfred Runte] Although few Americans use passenger trains today, we still love railroads. We say we want to preserve our national parks, countryside, and urban landscapes, yet we keep tearing into the best of them every day. Once abandoning railroads would have been unthinkable, but we have forgotten the importance of trains for our earth and for ourselves. Alfred Runte challenges our notion that adding highways and airports will help us reach our destinations more quickly, or meet our transportation and environmental goals. He dares us to care about what we see as we travel and to believe railroads hold a key to preserving our national landscapes. As a true visionary with a deep respect for the land and its people, Runte gives us hope that by restoring our trains, we can save our nation’s imperilled natural beauty. { 195pp, 180x260mm, January 2005; HB, £19.99, 1931112525:9781931112529 , Truman State University Press } |
| ANDREW TAYLOR STILL, 1828-1917 [Carol Trowbridge] Andrew Taylor Still lost confidence and hope in the medical therapies of his day after three of his children died of meningitis in 1864. He became obsessed with finding the cause and the cure for disease. Still developed a philosophy of osteopathy that was holistic, naturalistic, and emphasised health rather than disease. He shunned drugs, and used a manipulative therapy designed to release the healing powers of nature. After years of thought, study, and experimentation, Still opened the American School of Osteopathy in 1892 in Kirksville, Missouri, far removed from the medical centres of traditional medicine. Author Carol Trowbridge tells us about Still's family, the communities he lived in, and the events that shaped him. She helps us understand this eccentric medical pioneer who was never fully accepted by his peers, but whose holistic methods are now considered the cutting edge of medicine today. He leaves a legacy of patient-centred care that impacts providers and patients around the world. { 232pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £19.99, 1931112789:9781931112789 , Truman State University Press } |
| ART OF EXECUTING WELL : Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy [Nicholas Terpstra (ed)] In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful -- at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions. Leading scholars expand on these accounts with articles explaining particular aspects of the theatre, psychology, and politics of execution. The main text is a manual, translated in English for the first time, on how to comfort a man in his last hours before beheading or hanging. It became an influential text used across Renaissance Italy. A second lengthy piece gives an eyewitness account of the final hours of two patrician Florentines executed for conspiracy against the Medici in 1512. Shorter pieces include poems written by prisoners on the eve of their execution, songs sung by the condemned and their comforters, and popular broadsheets reporting on particular executions. It is richly illustrated with the small panel paintings that were thrust into prisoners' faces to distract them as they made the public journey to the gallows. Six interdisciplinary essays explain the contexts and meanings of these writings and of execution rituals generally. They explore the relation of execution rituals to late medieval street theater, the use of art to comfort the condemned, the literature that issued from prisons by the hands of condemned prisoners, the theological issues around public executions in the Renaissance, the psychological dimensions of the comforting process, and some of the social, political, and historical dimensions of executions and comforting in Renaissance Italy. { 360pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; HB, £31.99, 1931112878:9781931112871 , Truman State University Press } |
| ART OF EXECUTING WELL : Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy [Nicholas Terpstra (ed)] In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful -- at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads describing particular executions. Leading scholars expand on these accounts with articles explaining particular aspects of the theatre, psychology, and politics of execution. The main text is a manual, translated in English for the first time, on how to comfort a man in his last hours before beheading or hanging. It became an influential text used across Renaissance Italy. A second lengthy piece gives an eyewitness account of the final hours of two patrician Florentines executed for conspiracy against the Medici in 1512. Shorter pieces include poems written by prisoners on the eve of their execution, songs sung by the condemned and their comforters, and popular broadsheets reporting on particular executions. It is richly illustrated with the small panel paintings that were thrust into prisoners' faces to distract them as they made the public journey to the gallows. Six interdisciplinary essays explain the contexts and meanings of these writings and of execution rituals generally. They explore the relation of execution rituals to late medieval street theater, the use of art to comfort the condemned, the literature that issued from prisons by the hands of condemned prisoners, the theological issues around public executions in the Renaissance, the psychological dimensions of the comforting process, and some of the social, political, and historical dimensions of executions and comforting in Renaissance Italy. { 360pp, 155x230mm, July 2008; PB, £16.99, 1931112886:9781931112888 , Truman State University Press } |
| BETHSAIDA, VOLUME 1 : A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee [Rami Arav & Richard A Freund (eds)] The Bethsaida Excavations Project is uncovering one of the most important New Testament sites, lost to the world since the first century. { 337pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £13.50, 0943549868:9780943549866 / HB, £23.50, 0943549302:9780943549309 , Truman State University Press } |
| BETHSAIDA, VOLUME 2 : A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee [Rami Arav & Richard A Freund (eds)] This second volume reports the findings of the Excavation Project from 1944 to 1996. The number of archaeological discoveries exceeded all previous seasons. { 484pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £19.99, 0943549485:9780943549484 / HB, £29.99, 0943549493:9780943549491 , Truman State University Press } |
| BETHSAIDA, VOLUME 3 : A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee [Rami Arav & Richard A Freund (eds)] Ongoing archaeological excavation and research continues to uncover history at the biblical city of Bethsaida. Over the past 15 years, experts in the field continue to research and investigate the site, and have retrieved a wealth of information on some of the most critical topics in research from 10th century BCE to 4th century CE. Home to at least three apostles, Bethsaida is the only capital city from the Nile to the Euphrates dating to the Old Testament times, that has been excavated. In this volume, 13 articles shed light on the history of the city and region, and looks at the remains dating from the time of David to the time of Jesus. { 310pp, 155x230mm, November 2004; PB, £19.99, 1931112398:9781931112390 / HB, £29.99, 193111238X:9781931112383 , Truman State University Press } |
| BEYOND ISABELLA : Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy [Sheryl E Reiss & David Wilkins (eds)] Beyond Isabella d'Este, who were the secular female patrons of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy? This volume brings together fourteen essays that examine the important and often unrecognised roles secular women -- both aristocratic and bourgeois -- played in the patronage of visual culture during the Italian renaissance. { 364pp, 180x255mm, May 2001; PB, £23.50, 0943549884:9780943549880 , Truman State University Press } |
| BLUE SCORPION : Poems [Julie Fay] REVIEW: "Julie Fay’s magnificent Blue Scorpion seeks out the 'dense and promising weather' of experience and reports generously on marriage, motherhood, friendship, and expatriate life. But what makes her poems powerful and unique is the way, regardless of their subject, they are always in touch with the 'liquid fire our bodies' goblets contain'. This fire does not burn but rather it illuminates all the particularities and passions of our lives with a warm and steady flame..." -- Michael Collier. { 99pp, 155x230mm, February 2005; PB, £9.99, 1931112479:9781931112475 , Truman State University Press } |
| BORGES & OTHER SONNETS [William Baer] This collection of hard-edged, contemporary sonnets takes an uncompromising look at the current times, and our human failings and foibles. Although markedly contemporary in its subjects, the book presents keen awareness of the past and its unrelenting relationship with the present. The collection includes translations from two legendary sonneteers: Portuguese warrior-poet, Luís de Camões (1524-1580), and twentieth-century Argentine, J L Borges (1899-1986). Baer's sonnet translations are widely praised for capturing the subtleties and soaring spirits of the originals. { 76pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; PB, £9.99, 1931112339:9781931112338 , Truman State University Press } |
| BURNING OF LOS ANGELES : Poems by Samuel Maio [Samuel Maio] Samuel Maio's first poetry collection, "The Burning of Los Angeles", demonstrates impeccable prosodic skills. Invoking Nathaniel West, "whose visionary/ Foresaw the slow, smokeless burning of decay", Maio casts his own sardonic observations within neatly controlled lines and diction reminiscent of early Pound and Eliot. The poet's stance of an ironic observer, however, creates distance from the characters in his vignettes by the narrator's implied feelings of superiority. We enter a social milieu where lovemaking becomes a calculated form of narcissism, self-adoration on the make - a beautiful young woman undresses as "a wax model/ Self-sculptured and deftly rouged". In "The Real Thing" (ironic title, here) the couple is "conscious. . .of looking for the cameras". Looking through the lustful eyes of an ageing former beach surfer, at the Filipina whose "V" of long black hair "Points to the cleft showing above her bikini", we appreciate the details, but fail to care about the man. More poignant in its effect is "The Jack London Nuthouse", where the observer longs to "envision once more. . .The first time driving over the long bridge /A resplendent beauty awaiting him /Instead of the world's open nuthouse". The final section of the book, and the most autobiographical, draws the reader in completely. "Dark Woman Well" is a poem to be read with pounding heart. This remarkable memory/dream enacts a boy's ordeal of descent to hoist up a woman's corpse. This section, which comprises poems remembering the poet's father, and his unaffectedly skilled elegy for a writer friend, offers kinship to the reader as well. { 80pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; HB, £13.50, 0943549450:9780943549453 , Truman State University Press } |
| CHIVALRY & THE PERFECT PRINCE : Tournaments, Art, & Armor at the Spanish Habsburg Court [Braden K Frieder] This is a survey of the ceremonial armour crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armour, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of imperial politics, drawing comparisons with popular chivalric literature of the period. Frieder’s study utilises extensive primary source material and contemporary documents, many appearing for the first time in English. { 300pp, 180x255mm, January 2008; HB, £36.99, 193111269X:9781931112697 , Truman State University Press } |
| CHOOSING DEATH : Suicide & Calvinism in Early Modern Geneva [Jeffrey R Watt] Because of Geneva's uniquely rich and well-organised sources, this is the first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for pre-modern Europe. Watt places his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply, modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes towards it -- thorough secularised, medicalised, and stripped of diabolical undertones -- and the frequency of it. { 364pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £19.99, 0943549876:9780943549873 / HB, £29.99, 0943549817:9780943549811 , Truman State University Press } |
| CHURCH ART & ARCHITECTURE IN THE LOW COUNTRIES BEFORE 1566 [Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs] This volume presents a detailed survey of the art, furnishings, and architecture of Netherlandish churches at the time of the Reformation. Bangs summarises the general history of the 1566 iconoclasm and the longer, ongoing process by which the churches attained their present appearance. The pre-Reformation church architecture of the Low Countries is examined according to its regional and structural varieties and the identifiable work of known architects. { 244pp, 215x280mm, October 2001; HB, £33.50, 0940474395:9780940474390 , Truman State University Press } |
| CIVIL RIGHTS LEGACY OF HARRY S TRUMAN [Raymond H Geselbracht, Editor] President Harry S Truman's contribution to civil rights is generally viewed as substantial and important. But some historians are inclined to regard his achievement as meagre, hesitantly undertaken, polluted by political motives, and inadequate. The essays in this volume include the perspectives of historians and political scientists, of a member of Truman's White House staff, and of descendants of slaves -- including General Colin Powell, Congressman John Lewis, and former Congresswoman Carrie Meek. These essays renew a continuing dialog into the meaning of some of President Truman's most important decisions. { 224pp, 155x230mm, September 2007; PB, £19.50, 1931112673:9781931112673 , Truman State University Press } |
| COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS [Emidio Campi & Joseph C McLelland (eds)] Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) was a scriptural exegete, but also an Aristotelian philosopher. His voluminous commentaries on Old and New Testament books are complemented by this volume, the only one of its kind in his corpus. It provides a window into the complex world of early modern European philosophical translation and commentary, as well as the theology and ethics of the Reformed camp. { 438pp, 155x230mm, February 2006; HB, £39.99, 193111255X:9781931112550 , Truman State University Press } |
| COMMENTARY ON THE LAMENTATIONS OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH [Peter Martyr Vermigli] Peter Martyr Vermigli's earliest biblical commentary to survive is his lectures on the Book of Lamentations. As a refugee from Catholic Italy, Martyr sympathises with the Hebrew poet, who looks over the devastation of Jerusalem. The Introduction gives a précis of Christian Hebraism and pays particular attention to the Bomberg Bible. The notes highlight Martyr's allusions to the Jewish commentators of that Bible. { 224pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; HB, £29.99, 0943549647:9780943549644 , Truman State University Press } |
| CONSTRAINT ON TRIAL : Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert & Religious Freedom [Gerrit Voogt] This book is a thorough examination of the life and thought of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert (1522-90), the Dutch notary, artist, poet, playwright, translator, and controversialist who defended freedom of conscience and toleration. Coornhert's individualism made him eschew any restrictions on personal religious choice. His spiritualist beliefs are revealed in his writings on toleration and show him as a man who saw himself as 'God's battering ram against the prison of men's conscience'. { 304pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £19.99, 0943549841:9780943549842 , Truman State University Press } |
| EARLY MODERN HISTORY & THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : Testing the Limits of Braudel's Mediterranean [John A Marino (ed)] This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's 'The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II'. The contributors review various historiographical traditions to arrive at conclusions on contemporary theory and practice in the exchange between history and the disciplines of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, politics (diplomatic history and the study of revolutions), psychology (law), religion, and area studies (China and the Americas). { 289pp, 155x230mm, August 2002; PB, £23.50, 193111207X:9781931112079 / HB, £29.99, 1931112061:9781931112062 , Truman State University Press } |
| CREATING ANOTHER SELF, 2ND EDITION : Voice in Modern American Personal Poetry [Samuel Maio] In this expanded and updated volume, Samuel Maio is definitive and comprehensive in his discussion of American personal poetry. While broadening the concept of persona to include the first-person speaker, he analyses representative poets categorised by the aesthetics of voice, demonstrating these poets’ far-reaching influence into the 21st century. { 376pp, 155x230mm, September 2005; PB, £23.50, 1931112509:9781931112505 , Truman State University Press } |
| EMPTY BOAT [Michael Sowden] In finely wrought image-driven poems, 'The Empty Boat' explores the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of the human relationship to the natural world, asking how nature speaks to us and what wisdom and solace it may offer the tragic aspects of our lives. From haunting poems that give rise to losses - of spouse, father, companions -- and seek redemption in wilderness, to those that celebrate ecstatic moments of mystical vision, the book's trajectory moves ever toward Taoist landscapes of thought. The book concludes with the return of love and re-imaginings of the relationship of presence and emptiness in our lives. { 77pp, 155x230mm, September 2004; PB, £9.99, 1931112452:9781931112451 , Truman State University Press } |
| ENCOUNTERS WITH LINCOLN : Images & Words [Thomas J Trimborn] This unique collection of images of Abraham Lincoln portrays one of America’s greatest figures from an artist’s point of view. Brief historical narratives help us view this multidimensional man with new appreciation. The book stirs our imagination and is a reminder of the inspiring legacy of our beloved sixteenth president. { 68pp, 230x310mm, November 2005; PB, £13.50, 1931112517:9781931112512 , Truman State University Press } |
| EROTIC DISTANCE [Barbara Campbell] Erotic Distance explores our most intimate relationships and private lives in language that is at once painterly, sensual, and exacting. The poems combine the lyric image and formal rigor to negotiate the luminous space between ourselves and our desires. { 77pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £9.99, 1931112320:9781931112321 / HB, £16.99, 1931112312:9781931112314 , Truman State University Press } |
| FOUNDING THE FUTURE : A History of Truman State University [David C Nicholls] In 1867, Joseph Baldwin founded the North Missouri Normal School to train young men and women of the area to teach in the new public schools being established throughout the state. Baldwin believed that teachers must not only be highly trained in their particular field, but must also have a solid general education. Over the next decades the school continued to focus on training teachers for the public schools, but also developed a general education programme. Gradually, the curriculum expanded into other fields of study and professional training. Balancing tradition and innovation, the college built a strong foundation by providing a superior liberal arts and sciences education in a student-centred learning environment. In 1987, Northeast Missouri State University was given a new mission at the state's premier public liberal arts and sciences institution. This change in mission was reinforced a decade later when the name was changed to Truman State University. { 342pp, 180x260mm, February 2007; £23.50, 1931112630:9781931112635 , Truman State University Press } |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S TALIESIN FELLOWSHIP [Myron A Marty & Shirley L Marty] This book tells the story of the Taliesin Fellowship, created by Frank and Olgivanna Lloyd Wright in 1932, in the words of men and women who joined the Fellowship, some as early as the 1930s, and remained with it into the 1990s. Many of the storytellers worked side by side with Wright, who died in 1959, and almost all of them lived and worked with Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, who survived her husband by 26 years. The Taliesin fellows are joined by other storytellers who have been their partners in recent years and who know the Fellowship well. The Fellowship's origins and milestones in its history are documented here, as well as the dynamics that shaped its progress, its character, and its story. Readers will gain fresh and provocative insights into the genius and mystique of the Fellowship's creators and an understanding of Frank Lloyd Wright's amazing productivity, particularly in the last decade of his life. These stories will debunk some of the common caricatures that are a part of his legacy. { 312pp, 220x285mm, October 2001; PB, £16.99, 0943549736:9780943549736 / HB, £26.99, 0943549744:9780943549743 , Truman State University Press } |
| GEORGE GIFFORD & THE REFORMATION OF THE COMMON SORT : Puritan Perspectives on Elizabethan Religious Life [Timothy Scott McGinnis] This careful study explores puritan attitudes through the life and works of Elizabethan minister George Gifford. He was on the frontlines of religious controversies in a time when the English church was being shaped by Protestant evangelicals who felt compelled to carry their understanding of 'true religion' to all corners of England. Known among themselves as 'the godly' or 'gospellers' and to their enemies as 'puritans' or 'precisionists', these ministers believed the Church of England was only partially reformed. Gifford tried to convert the many parishioners who he believed to be Protestant in name only, or 'men indifferent' due to their acceptance of whatever religion was thrust upon them. { 191pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £24.99, 193111241X:9781931112413 / HB, £33.50, 1931112401:9781931112406 , Truman State University Press } |
| GRAFT [Glori Simmons] These poems traverse the realms of art, horticulture, history, and medicine, excavating our sensual world to find meaning. From Eve's out-held hand to Madame Roentgen's ring-clad hand x-ray, these poems seek understanding through the senses and preservation through the witnessing of small acts. The poet's ability to enter into the experience of others than herself, and to identify interesting and unjustly neglected lives, gives these poems a rich sense of perspective and a broad appeal. { 62pp, 150x230mm, February 2002; PB, £9.99, 1931112037:9781931112031 , Truman State University Press } |
| HAUNTED MISSOURI : A Ghostly Guide to the Show-Me State's Most Spirited Spots [Jason Offutt] Mysterious cold spots, disembodied voices, and smoky apparitions are just a few of the ghostly goings-on gathered by journalist Jason Offutt in his trek across Missouri. Visiting public places such as Civil War battlefields, university halls, and infamous mansions, Offutt draws from hundreds of interviews in his search for restless spirits. A serious but witty look at Missouri's place in the ghostly realm, this book brings together history, folklore, and just enough mystery to intrigue the sceptics and delight the believers. { 186pp, 155x230mm, June 2007; PB, £13.50, 1931112665:9781931112666 , Truman State University Press } |
| HERESY, CULTURE, & RELIGION IN EARLY MODERN ITALY : Contexts & Contestations [Ronald K Delph, Michelle M Fontaine & John Jeffries Martin] The study of the Italian reform movements challenges the traditional framework of Reformation and Counter Reformation that many scholars had previously used to approach the religious culture of Italy in the 16th and 17th century. This book offers an overview of some of the best work being done by scholars in both Italy and the US on this subject. { 265pp, 155x230mm, September 2006; PB, £33.50, 1931112584:9781931112581 , Truman State University Press } |
| HIGH ANXIETY : Masculinity in Crisis in Early Modern France [Kahtleen P Long (ed)] This collection explores the evolution of notions about masculinity during the intense crisis of Renaissance and early modern France. Authors of the period reflect the anxieties about masculinity that became more pronounced against the backdrop of major events and innovations of the period: the religious conflict in France, the repeated questioning of religious and royal authority, the revival of Greek scepticism, the discovery of the New World, and the rise of clinical medicine. These events in turn fuelled growing doubt concerning the fixed and hierarchical nature of gender distinction; a distinction upon which many felt French culture was dependent for its very survival. { 238pp, 150x230mm, February 2002; PB, £23.50, 0943549922:9780943549927 / HB, £29.99, 0943549914:9780943549910 , Truman State University Press } |
| HISTORY HAS MANY VOICES [Lee Palmer Wandel (ed)] This volume presents essays from eight scholars who trained with Robert Kingdon, a vanguard of early modern studies. He required students to go to primary sources, yet they were free to pursue their own curiosity. No matter what their approach to the sources, students were held to a high standard of thoroughness, precision, and attention to detail. This festschrift displays something of the diversity of language, source materials, methods, and visions that Kingdon encouraged in his students during his forty-year career in graduate education. { 167pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; HB, £28.99, 1931112177:9781931112178 , Truman State University Press } |
| HUMAN CARTOGRAPHY [James Gurley] In this collection, poet James Gurley maps the emotional and physical landscapes we inhabit. His poems employ the theorems and metaphors of science to examine how history and the natural world around us help shape our lives. Displaying what 2002 T S Eliot judge David Wagoner called "the best kind of literary empathy", Gurley retells the stories of historical figures -- naturalists, explorers, ornithologists, photographers -- and brings these characters alive in a contemporary context that heightens the parallels between past and present. The different voices from science and art -- usually seen as incompatible-link to form a comprehensive vision of the human experience. { 104pp, 155x230mm, August 2002; PB, £9.99, 1931112169:9781931112161 / HB, £16.99, 1931112150:9781931112154 , Truman State University Press } |
| HUSBANDS, WIVES & CONCUBINES : Marriage, Family & Social Order in 16th Century Verona [Emyln Eisenach] Emlyn Eisenach uses a wide range of sources, including the richly detailed and previously unexplored records of nearly two hundred marriage-related disputes from the bishop's court of Verona, to illuminate family and social relations in early modern northern Italy. Arguing against the common emphasis on the growth of law and government in this period, her study emphasises the fluidity of the principles that governed marriage and its dissolution, and deepens our understanding of the patriarchal family and its complex relationship with gender and status during the sixteenth century. { 240pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; PB, £24.99, 1931112355:9781931112352 / HB, £33.50, 1931112347:9781931112345 , Truman State University Press } |
| IMAGES OF PLAGUE & PESTILENCE : Iconography & Iconology [Christine M Boeckl] Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and other media, about the horror of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art historical standpoint. { 224pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £19.99, 094354985X:9780943549859 , Truman State University Press } |
| IN DVORAK'S FOOTSTEPS : Musical Journeys in the New World [Miroslav Ivanov; Translated by Stania Slahor; Edited by Leon Karel] This book mixes biography, autobiography, history, musicology, and travel, leaving sharp images of Dvorak and of the late 19th century world. { 420pp, 155x235mm, October 2001; £26.99, 0943549256:9780943549255 , Truman State University Press } |
| INTO THE ARMS OF PUSHKIN : Poems of St Petersburg [Carol V Davis] Carol V Davis is the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her fascination with Russia, aided by a Fulbright grant, drew her to St Petersburg in the mid 1990s. Over the next decade, she divided her time between the US and Russia, where, as an American-born Jew, she was an outsider in Russian society. This collection of poems expresses the struggle with language barriers and cultural differences -- struggles heightened as Davis helped her children adjust to their new daily life. Inspired by Russia's rich history, its economic changes, and landscape, these poems express a unique perspective of Russia. { 96pp, 155x230mm, September 2007; PB, £10.99, 1931112711:9781931112710 / HB, £16.99, 1931112703:9781931112703 , Truman State University Press } |
| ISRAEL & THE LEGACY OF HARRY S TRUMAN ((Truman Legacy Series)) [Michael J Devine, Robert P Watson & Robert J Wolz] When he assumed the presidency in April 1945, Harry S Truman inherited various international sources of turmoil, including the ambiguity of American policy toward political Zionism. Three years later, President Truman recognised the State of Israel on 14 May 1948, just 11 minutes after the announcement of its existence. These essays explore the methods Truman used to tackle this dilemma, one he is said to have considered more troublesome than almost any other issue plaguing the United States at the time. After 50 years of continuing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians, the legacy of Truman's struggle is reflected in the distinct voices of this collection's contributors, including scholars, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, Israel's representative to the United Nations, and a White House aide during Truman's presidency. { 121pp, 155x230mm, July 2008; PB, £19.50, 1931112800:9781931112802 , Truman State University Press } |
| JOHN CALVIN & THE PRINTED BOOK [Jean-François Gilmont; Translated by Karin Maag] John Calvin made a significant contribution to the world of early modern printing. Jean-François Gilmont, one of the foremost experts in the field, has thoroughly researched and presented all aspects of John Calvin's interaction with books -- from the authors he read, to the works he wrote, to his relationships with the printing and publishing world of the sixteenth century. Originally in French, Karin Maag makes Gilmont's research available in this English translation. { 331pp, 155x230mm, November 2005; PB, £24.99, 1931112568:9781931112567 , Truman State University Press } |
| KINDLED TERRACES : American Poets in Greece [Don Schofield] "Kindled Terraces" features poems by 40 contemporary American poets influenced by their experience in modern Greece. Spanning more than five decades, the poems in this anthology are written by highly acclaimed and newer poets who embrace a variety of styles, including lyric and narrative free verse, new formalism, language, and experimental poetry. The wide range of voices in this collection illustrates the extent Greece moves those who get to know the country intimately, and how its history, mythology, and modern diversity hold a significant place in the American poetic imagination. Poets in this volume include: James Merrill; Jack Gilbert ; Rachel Hadas; Peter Green; Edward Field; Michael Waters; Joseph Stroud; Alicia Suskin Ostriker; Rachel Blau DuPlessis; A. E. Stallings; Nicholas Samaras; Christopher Bakken; Alice Friman; Charles O. Hartman; Thomas McGrath; Alan Ansen; P. H. Liotta; Rebecca Newth; Moira Egan; Rina Ferrarelli; Barry Tagrin; Linda Elkin; Donald Brees; Jeffrey Carson; Adrianne Kalfopoulou; Lonnie Dupont; Linda Gregg; Charles Fishman; Robert Lax; Gail White; Eleni Sikelianos; Mark Sargent; William Pitt Root; Philip Ramp; Dave Mason; Bill Mayer; Diane Thiel; Laurel Mantzaris; Becky Sakellariou. { 230pp, 155x230mm, March 2004; PB, £16.99, 1931112371:9781931112376 , Truman State University Press } |
| LEONARDE'S GHOST : Popular Piety & "The Appearance of a Spirit" in 1628 [Kathryn A Edwards & Susie Speakman Sutch] Huguette Roy is a bedridden, pregnant woman living in early modern Franche-Comté when a mysterious apparition arrives at her bedside in 1628. Not only afflicted by her physical ailments but also a deathly fear of demonic influences, Huguette is faced with weeks of daily appearances from the ethereal chambermaid visible solely to her eyes. Surrounded by a barrage of non-believers and questioning religious orders, Huguette must conquer her own uncertainty and help the mystical being achieve her fate. Set during a time when visionaries were forcefully prosecuted, the account was stored away in a small, French library. Now translators Edwards and Sutch introduce this primary source and place it in its historical, geographical, political, and religious contexts. { 125pp, 155x230mm, May 2008; PB, £13.50, 1931112797:9781931112796 , Truman State University Press } |
| LIFE, LETTERS & SERMONS [Peter Martyr Vermigli; Edited & Translated by John Patrick Donnelly] his volume illustrates the busy and conflicted career of Vermigli, who left his beloved Italy in 1542, one step ahead of the Inquisition, to spend twenty years in three centres of Reform: Strasbourg, Oxford, and Zurich. { 346pp, 155x235mm, October 2001; £29.99, 0943549612:9780943549613 , Truman State University Press } |
| LILITH : A Metamorphosis [Dagmar Nick] This is a retelling of Adam's legendary first wife from her own point of view. Dagmar Nick, one of Germany's most beloved author-poets, spins the tale with imagination, insight, and compelling language, all carefully preserved in this authorised English translation. This bilingual edition, with an informative introduction, offers stimulation reading and access to contemporary German vocabulary and grammatical structures, making it especially well suited for students of German. { 52pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; PB, £6.99, 0943549329:9780943549323 , Truman State University Press } |
| LIONS' GATE : Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios [Translated by Christopher Bakken & Roula Konsolaki] "The Lions' Gate" introduces a crucial voice in world poetry to readers in English. Titos Patrikios is a poet of witness and engagement. A member of the intellectual left in post-war Greece, he survived imprisonment, hard labour, censorship, and exile. He narrowly escaped death by firing squad, and once had to bury his poems to keep them from discovery by the authorities. Patrikios endured years away from his home country, Greece, and was displaced from his family and literary community. His style bears the marks of that pressure and of his persistent need to pursue what might suffice in spite of such predicaments. At times reminiscent of Hikmet, Neruda, and Milosz, Patrikios's poems sound a note of defiant celebration. This poet's ethos is utterly humanistic and his impulses are toward praise as often as they are toward protest. { 147pp, 155x230mm, November 2006; HB, £16.99, 1931112649:9781931112642 , Truman State University Press } |
| LUTHER'S LECTURES ON GENESIS & THE FORMATION OF EVANGELICAL IDENTITY [John A Maxfield] This study uses the text of the lectures to outline the contours of the new identity that Luther laid out through his exposition of Genesis. They include how Luther approached and taught his students to perceive the text of holy scripture; how that text unveiled for Luther the nature of Christian life in the world; and how Luther taught his students to view the past, the present, and the future of the church and the world through the book of Genesis. { 300pp, 155x230mm, February 2008; HB, £34.99, 1931112754:9781931112758 , Truman State University Press } |
| MARRIAGE & DIVORCE IN THE THOUGHT OF MARTIN BUCER [Herman J Selderhuis et al] A revealing and stimulating description of the sixteenth-century reformer and his theory and practice of marriage and divorce. Bucer was known as a marriage broker as well as a marriage breaker; his views were first rejected and later neglected, yet they have an all-time freshness. Marriage and Divorce offers Bucer's revolutionary and astonishingly modern views on divorce. It takes away the misunderstandings that have for centuries surrounded Bucer in this matter and it is an important contribution to gender studies. { 436pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; HB, £29.99, 094354968X:9780943549682 , Truman State University Press } |
| MASCULINITY IN THE REFORMATION ERA [Scott H Hendrix & Susan C Karant-Nunn (eds)] These essays add a unique perspective to studies that reconstruct the identity of manhood in early modern Europe, including France, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany. The authors examine the ways in which sixteenth and seventeenth-century authorities, both secular and religious, laboured to turn boys and men into the Christian males they desired. Topics include disparities among gender paradigms that early modern models prescribed and the tension between the patriarchal model and the civic duties that men were expected to fulfil. Essays about Martin Luther, a prolific self-witness, look into the marriage relationship with its expected and actual gender roles. { 228pp, 155x230mm, May 2008; HB, £31.99, 1931112762:9781931112765 , Truman State University Press } |
| MINIATURE ROOM [Rebecca Dunham] With tender probing and tight, expressive language, 'The Miniature Room' explores the grace and power of the miniscule as it exists within an infinite universe. This 2006 T S Eliot Prize-winning collection utilises rich imagery and complex interlocking meanings as author Rebecca Durham builds off the classical themes of art, history, nature, love, life, religion, and motherhood to provide a sensual and inquisitive body of work. Author affiliation { 72pp, 155x230mm, October 2006; PB, £10.99, 1931112622:9781931112628 / HB, £16.99, 1931112614:9781931112611 , Truman State University Press } |
| MODERN PAPUA NEW GUINEA [Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (ed)] Papua New Guinea is a country of great diversity. With over seven hundred languages, as many cultures, diverse physical types, and a landmass encompassing coral reef, mangrove swamp, rain forest, mountain ranges, and extensive river systems, Papua New Guinea has long attracted the interest of scientists and others seeking to understand or control some part of its rich diversity. Discovering order in this diversity is not easy. This collection offers perspective and understanding into Papua New Guinea's varied social scene and the challenging political and economic realities of a recently independent country. The twenty contributors to this volume bring their perspective in one of four areas: The State and National Identity, Economic Development, The New Society, and The People's Welfare. The book is written for upper division and graduate-level courses on Papua New Guinea or the contemporary Pacific. It is also useful for specialists in Third World development who do not know much about Papua New Guinea, and as a reference work for Papua New Guinea specialists. { 424pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; HB, £26.99, 0943549515:9780943549514 , Truman State University Press } |
| MODERN PAPUA NEW GUINEA [Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (ed)] Papua New Guinea is a country of great diversity. With over seven hundred languages, as many cultures, diverse physical types, and a landmass encompassing coral reef, mangrove swamp, rain forest, mountain ranges, and extensive river systems, Papua New Guinea has long attracted the interest of scientists and others seeking to understand or control some part of its rich diversity. Discovering order in this diversity is not easy. This collection offers perspective and understanding into Papua New Guinea's varied social scene and the challenging political and economic realities of a recently independent country. The twenty contributors to this volume bring their perspective in one of four areas: The State and National Identity, Economic Development, The New Society, and The People's Welfare. The book is written for upper division and graduate-level courses on Papua New Guinea or the contemporary Pacific. It is also useful for specialists in Third World development who do not know much about Papua New Guinea, and as a reference work for Papua New Guinea specialists. { 424pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £16.99, 0943549574:9780943549576 , Truman State University Press } |
| MY MAIDEN COWBOY NAMES : Poems [Victoria Brockmeier] Victoria Brockmeier composes a mosaic of storytelling, myths, and feminist ideas in her award-winning collection of poems, My Maiden Cowboy Names. Both linguistically playful and genuinely experimental, these poems explore the smallness of human experience. The sumptuousness and vitality of this collection does not sacrifice the capacity for excavating observation and sharp wit. Lush and spacious, these poems revel in the unexpectedly beautiful and the beautifully broken. { 84pp, 155x230mm, September 2008; HB, £16.99, 1931112819:9781931112819 , Truman State University Press } |
| MY MAIDEN COWBOY NAMES : Poems [Victoria Brockmeier] Victoria Brockmeier composes a mosaic of storytelling, myths, and feminist ideas in her award-winning collection of poems, My Maiden Cowboy Names. Both linguistically playful and genuinely experimental, these poems explore the smallness of human experience. The sumptuousness and vitality of this collection does not sacrifice the capacity for excavating observation and sharp wit. Lush and spacious, these poems revel in the unexpectedly beautiful and the beautifully broken. { 155x230mm, October 2008; PB, £10.99, 1931112827:9781931112826 , Truman State University Press } |
| MYRON SMITH TOWNE & THE MEANING OF SUCCESS, 1829-1918 [Ruth Warner Towne] History is often written about the rich, famous, powerful, and those at the top of society. We seldom can read about the life, experiences, and dreams of a common citizen, but here is a glimpse of American society of the late nineteenth century 'from the bottom up' as revealed in the life of one man and his family. Myron Smith Towne, who came from Pennsylvania and fought with the Union in the Civil War, sought his fortune by going west, only to encounter hard times, disappointment, and finally success in a small northern Missouri town. Meet the many interesting personalities portrayed here for insight into late nineteenth-century America. { 298pp, 155x235mm, October 2001; £16.99, 0943549507:9780943549507 , Truman State University Press } |
| NAKED HEART : A Soldier's Journey to the Front [Harold Pagliaro] This is a powerful statement about the dark and vainglorious side of combat as experienced in World War II by a young private, Harold Pagliaro. His true story is a gripping, authentic account of men's behaviour in the face of death on the battlefield. { 238pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £7.99, 0943549418:9780943549415 , Truman State University Press } |
| NAKED SCARECROW [Richard Moore] The Naked Scarecrow, Richard Moore's tenth published collection of poems, offers insights into twentieth-century American life. Moore's poems are in rhythms and discernible forms, witty, moving, and above all, understandable. Moore first acquaints us with the absurdities, agonies, and paradoxes of being a husband and father in contemporary America. He then expands his view into society as a whole. In the final sequence, Moore brings the self and its naked helplessness into mystical contact with the world. { 67pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £9.99, 0943549590:9780943549590 , Truman State University Press } |
| NATIONAL SECURITY LEGACY OF HARRY S TRUMAN [Robert P Watson, Michael J Devine & Robert J Wolz (eds)] Harry S Truman’s national security legacy, as documented here by Truman scholars and political leaders on the 50th anniversary of the end of his presidency, is marked by a series of noteworthy foreign policy initiatives. Credited with establishing post-World War II order, Truman’s political heritage also includes the creation of NATO and the United Nations, food and foreign aid programs, the Marshall Plan and the integration of the US armed forces. Contributions from distinguished former aides to President Truman and recognised national security experts make this book an especially important and unique read. Highlights include a conclusion by General Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor to Presidents Ford and Bush and a foreword by Clifton Truman Daniel, President Truman’s grandson. { 198pp, 155x230mm, September 2005; PB, £16.99, 1931112460:9781931112468 , Truman State University Press } |
| NOBLE STRATEGIES : Marriage & Sexuality in the Zimmern Chronicle [Judith J Hurwich] Through the colourful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried, to investigate marriage and non-marital sexuality in the southwest German nobility in the late fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Along with a deeper look at women's roles as wives, mothers, and concubines, 'Noble Strategies' shines a light on the intimate lives of the early modern German elite. { 290pp, 155x230mm, September 2006; HB, £33.50, 1931112592:9781931112598 , Truman State University Press } |
| NUMBERED DAYS [Dagmar Nick] These poems are filled with the sadness of loss that is ultimately gained in the psyche of one unerring voice. Each poem is jewel-sharp and distinct, yet many-faceted in its knowledge of light and dark. This book is ideal for classes in translation and in world literature, because the original German text and the English translation are on facing pages. { 128pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £9.99, 0943549531:9780943549538 / HB, £14.99, 094354954X:9780943549545 , Truman State University Press } |
| OLD DIRECTION OF HEAVEN [Jennifer Rose] Rose searches for meaning in a world haunted by war, especially World War and weaves her knowledge of history into meticulous observations of the natural world. { 50pp, 150x230mm, October 2001; PB, £9.99, 094354923X:9780943549231 , Truman State University Press } |
| OXFORD TREATISE & DISPUTATION ON THE EUCHARIST, 1549 [Peter Martyr Vermigli; Edited & Translated by Joseph C McLelland] Among the most polemical of Martyr's works, the texts presented here are part of the turbulent period in England during the times of Edward VI and Archbishop Cranmer. Along with his account of the Disputation, Martyr published a Treatise that provides systematic treatment of the arguments, biblical and patristic in source, with transubstantiation the target. There is a wealth of information about the state of the realm, the choice of patristic authorities, the nature of Martyr's objections to the traditional doctrine, and his proposed alternative. { 306pp, 160x235mm, October 2001; £29.99, 0943549892:9780943549897 , Truman State University Press } |
| PARACELSIAN MOMENTS : Science, Medicine & Astrology in Early Modern Europe [Gerhild Scholz Williams & Charles D Gunnoe (eds)] Scientific ideas inspired by religious, magical, and alchemical themes competed alongside traditional Aristotelian science and the emerging mechanical philosophy in the early modern era. At the center of this ferment was a quirky and creative German physician, Paracelsus, whose religious-alchemical worldview served as an inspiration for countless scientific innovators. This collection is about Paracelsus and the wide range of issues he explored, and ones taken up by many who were directly or indirectly affected by the same mental universe that sustained his thought and writings. This volume includes strong contextual studies on Paracelsianism and the larger cultural history of early modern science, including groundbreaking studies on Robert Boyle, Francois Rabelais, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Johannes Praetorius. { 274pp, 155x230mm, March 2003; PB, £23.50, 1931112118:9781931112116 / HB, £29.99, 1931112126:9781931112123 , Truman State University Press } |
| PATRONAGE & DYNASTY : The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy [Ian F Verstegen (ed)] This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the eyes of one of early modern Italy's most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family's ascent into Italian nobility. They were a family of popes, cardinals, and powerful dukes who financed some of the world's best known and greatest artwork. These essays explore the issues of identity and its maintenance, of carving a permanent spot for a family name in a rapidly changing atmosphere. Although these studies depart from art patronage, they uncover how the della Rovere family constituted their identity. { 210pp, 180x255mm, December 2006; HB, £36.99, 1931112606:9781931112604 , Truman State University Press } |
| PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS : On the Relation of Philosophy to Theology [Peter Martyr Vermigli; Edited & Translated by Joseph C McLelland] This volume is devoted to Vermigli's philosophical writings, consisting of topics from commentaries with sections on: reason and revelation; body and soul; knowledge of God; providence, miracles, and responsibility; and freewill and predestination. { 353pp, 160x235mm, October 2001; £26.99, 0940474417:9780940474413 , Truman State University Press } |
| PIETY & PLAGUE : From Byzantium to the Baroque [Franco Mormando & Thomas Worcester (eds)] Plague was one of the enduring facts of everyday life on the European continent, from earliest antiquity through the first decades of the eighteenth century. It represents one of the most important influences on the development of Europe’s society and culture. In order to understand the changing circumstances of the political, economic, ecclesiastical, artistic, and social history of that continent, it is important to understand epidemic disease and society’s response to it. To date, the largest portion of scholarship about plague has focused on its political, economic, demographic, and medical aspects. This interdisciplinary volume offers greater coverage of the religious and the psychological dimensions of plague and of European society’s response to it through many centuries and over a wide geographical terrain, including Byzantium. { 330pp, 185x260mm, November 2007; HB, £36.99, 1931112738:9781931112734 , Truman State University Press } |
| PLAYING AT STILLNESS [Rhina Espaillat] For years I have been telling everyone I know about Rhina Espaillat's work, giving her books to friends as gifts, teaching her poems in my writing workshops, rereading them to renew my faith in the written word. She has been and continues to be one of my favourite American poets. This book displays her range -- from exquisitely executed formal verse to wonderfully fluid and appealing free verse poems. Humorous and playful, astute and poignant, she never gets in her way -- her craft does all the work and we delight in the results. The poems keep surprising me. Again and again as I read them, I feel deeply grateful to this wonderfully generous and skilled writer -- by Julie Alvarez. Rhina Espaillat's immaculate verse is characterised by a bemused melancholy and serenity which are hard to find in American letters. A greater contrast to her contemporaries (and I believe her inferiors), Plath and Sexton, would be similarly hard to find. This a wonderful collection in which every parent, will find the best poem for a son's wedding that I have ever read (yes, even better than Wilbur's!) But readers long familiar with Espaillat might be surprised by the wit with which she rebukes. -- by Tim Murphy. { 120pp, 152x228mm, April 2006; PB, £9.99, 1931112487:9781931112482 , Truman State University Press } |
| POLITICS, RELIGION & DIPLOMACY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE : Essays in Honor of De Lamar Jensen [Malcolm R Thorp & Arthur J Slavin] { 332pp, 155x230mm, February 2003; HB, £19.99, 0940474298:9780940474291 , Truman State University Press } |
| PREDESTINATION & JUSTIFICATION : Two Theological Loci [Peter Martry Vermigli] Predestination and justification are two of the most distinctive and familiar doctrines associated with the Protestant Reformation. Martyr, an influential Protestant theologian and biblical exegete of the sixteenth century, engages advocates and detractors alike in his most extensive discussions of these controversial theological topics, drawn from his monumental commentary on the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans. The great value of these two treatises is that they provide a vital if unheralded Protestant perspective on what were two of the most controverted doctrines of the Reformation era -- not only between Roman Catholics and Protestants, but also among the Reformed, Lutheran, and Anabaptists as well. { 248pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; HB, £29.99, 1931112274:9781931112277 , Truman State University Press } |
| PRIVILEGING GENDER IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH [Jean R Brink (ed)] These essays focus on gender issues in early modern England as expressed in texts written by and about women. { 250pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; HB, £26.99, 0940474247:9780940474246 , Truman State University Press } |
| PROCEEDINGS OF THE 18TH NORTH AMERICAN PRAIRIE CONFERENCE : Promoting Prairie [Stephanie Fore (ed)] Presentations made at the 18th North American Prairie Conference in June 2002 articulate the importance of the prairie's worth. This research is important for scientists, legislators and the American public working together to shape policies that impact the prairie. { 250pp, 215x280mm, January 2003; PB, £19.99, 1931112363:9781931112369 , Truman State University Press } |
| PROTESTANTS & THE CULT OF THE SAINTS IN GERMAN-SPEAKING EUROPE, 1517-1531 [Carol Piper Heming] The role of the saints became a theological dilemma for scholars and laity alike throughout the Reformation era. As Protestants tried to remove themselves from the hold of the Catholic Church, the cult of the saints remained a formidable presence. Through the analysis of 180 pamphlets published by reformers in German-speaking Europe, Carol Heming shows the struggle Protestants faced in purging the cult of the saints from their culture and religion. Heming examines why Reformation leaders so strongly and universally denounced the cult of the saints and whether the holy patrons disappeared from Protestant areas without benefit of champion or defender. Complete scriptural references used in the pamphlets against the saints and images are included. { 170pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £24.99, 193111224X:9781931112246 / HB, £32.99, 1931112231:9781931112239 , Truman State University Press } |
| PURE INCONSTANCY OF GRACE [Richard St John] Master craftsman Richard St. John eloquently illuminates the human condition in surprising and profound ways in this collection of poems. He finds genuine grace in the midst of suffering and despair as well as in mundane moments of daily life. These are powerful poems with clear-eyed empathy and uncanny insight. { 85pp, 150x230mm, November 2005; PB, £9.99, 1931112495:9781931112499 , Truman State University Press } |
| RADICAL REFORMATION, 3RD EDITION [George Huntston Williams] For over 30 years George Williams' monumental 'The Radical Reformation' has been an essential reference work for historians of early modern Europe, narrating in rich, interpretative detail the interconnected stories of radical groups operating at the margins of the mainline Reformation. In its scope -- spanning all of Europe from Spain to Poland, from Denmark to Italy -- and its erudition, this book is without peer. Now available in paperback, Williams' magnum opus should be considered for an college or university-level course on the Reformation. { 1516pp, October 2001; PB, £49.99, 0943549833:9780943549835 , Truman State University Press } |
| RAMUS & REFORM : University & Church at the End of the Renaissance [James Veazie Skalnik] Educator and reformer Peter Ramus (1515-72) was known for his rash assaults on the most esteemed and cherished foundations of religion and learning in France. As a leading figure in both the French Reform and the University of Paris, and author of the pedagogical system known as 'Ramism', he consistently promoted an ideology which would make status, influence, and authority dependent on talent and achievement, instead of on birth or wealth. His social ideal attracted a sizeable following and achieved some practical results during his lifetime, but after his death his reforms collapsed. In their place arose the hierarchical, oligarchic, and authoritarian society of Old Regime France. Skalnik presents fresh and solid research in this well-written volume. { 172pp, 155x230mm, April 2002; HB, £26.99, 0943549930:9780943549934 , Truman State University Press } |
| RATIONAL NUMBERS [H L Hix] In his second book of poetry, H L Hix uses two contrasting poetic sequences. 'Orders of Magnitude' defies rationality in favour of invention in the musical sense: producing a short composition that works out a single idea. As in music, the whole composition achieves its irrational effect through rational formal structure, with 100 poems, each ten lines long, with ten syllables per line. In the second sequence, 'Figures', the speakers follow their 'pure' rationality, though it leads them -- inevitably -- into the dark heart of the irrational. The result is a ledger of love and loss, a balancing of grief's books. { 50pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £9.99, 0943549795:9780943549798 / HB, £14.99, 0943549809:9780943549804 , Truman State University Press } |
| REBEL ON THE ROAD : And Why I Was Never Neutral [Michael Frome] Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist, a premier environmental muckraker. His memoir is a reflection on years spent teaching himself and others to write subjectively, live purposefully, and age gracefully. { 343pp, 155x230mm, July 2007; HB, £19.50, 1931112657:9781931112659 , Truman State University Press } |
| RED BEANS & RICELY YOURS [Mona Lisa Saloy] These narrative poems tell the day-to-day lives of Black New Orleans and the rare magic in the culture. Vibrant with local history and colour, these poems have a Black sensibility that reaches beyond boundaries, with folk sayings turned into polished verse. From Black talk to verse forms, Mona Lisa Saloy never loses sight of the African American cultural roots of her community. She makes music in verse. { 106pp, 155x230mm, October 2005; PB, £9.99, 1931112541:9781931112543 / HB, £16.99, 1931112533:9781931112536 , Truman State University Press } |
| REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN EUROPE : A Guide to Research [David M Whitford (ed)] Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Each author reviews the present state of research in the field, new trends, key issues scholars are working with, and fundamental works in their subject area, including the wide range of electronic resources now available to researchers. This is a valuable resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe. { 456pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; HB, £34.99, 193111272X:9781931112727 , Truman State University Press } |
| REFORMING FRENCH PROTESTANTISM : The Development of Huguenot Ecclesiastical Institutions, 1557-1572 [Glenn S Sunshine] Theology encounters history and culture in sixteenth-century France in this examination of French Protestantism. The analysis reveals how Calvinism's growing influence led to the unification of French Protestant churches despite the opposition of the royalty. The interaction between newly adopted Calvinist theology and French society led to the development of the Presbyterian polity of the church government, a concept that quickly spread through western Europe. { 193pp, 155x230mm, November 2003; HB, £33.50, 1931112282:9781931112284 , Truman State University Press } |
| RELIGION & ROYAL JUSTICE IN EARLY MODERN FRANCE : The Paris Chambre de l'Edit, 1598-1665 [Diane C Margolf] Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l'Edit in this well-researched study about the special royal law court that adjudicated disputes between French Huguenots and the Catholics. Using archival records of the court's criminal cases, Margolf analyses the connections to three major issues in early modern French and European history: religious conflict and coexistence, the growing claims of the French crown to define and maintain order, and competing concepts of community and identity in the French state and society. Based on previously unexplored archival materials, Margolf examines the court through a cultural lens and offers portraits of ordinary men and women who were litigants before the court, and the magistrates who heard their cases. { 228pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £24.99, 1931112266:9781931112260 / HB, £33.50, 1931112258:9781931112253 , Truman State University Press } |
| RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES IN FRANCE : Past & Present [Kathleen Perry Long (ed)] This volume looks at the relationship between religious and secular institutions and the influence of those institutions on the development of individual religious identities. { ca300pp, 155x230mm, April 2006; PB, £25.99, 1931112576:9781931112574 , Truman State University Press } |
| RENAISSANCE SIENA : Art in Context [A Lawrence Jenkens (ed)] The art of Renaissance Siena is usually viewed in the light of developments and accomplishments achieved elsewhere, but Sienese artists were part of a dynamic dialogue that was shaped by their city’s internal political turmoil, diplomatic relationships with its neighbours, internal social hierarchies, and struggle for self-definition. These essays lead scholars in a new and exciting direction in the study of the art of Renaissance Siena, exploring the cultural dynamics of the city and its art in a specifically Sienese context. This volume shapes a new understanding of Sienese culture in the early modern period and defines the questions scholars will continue to ask for years to come. What emerges is a picture of Renaissance Siena as a city focused on meeting the challenges of the time while formulating changes to shape its future. Central to these changes are the city’s efforts to fashion a civic identity through the visual arts. { 208pp, 180x255mm, September 2005; PB, £26.99, 1931112436:9781931112437 / HB, £36.99, 1931112428:9781931112420 , Truman State University Press } |
| ROSE INSIDE [David Keplinger] David Keplinger is a translator of event and emotion with poems that are lyrical, forceful, deeply feeling, and sometimes mysterious. Not everything in our lives is solvable, or knowable -- so much issues from a mere point, like moonlight in a prison cell, or a minnow being lifted from the bait pail to the hook, or a group of Polish soldiers who 'sleep quietly on one another's shoulders.' { 58pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £9.99, 0943549701:9780943549705 / HB, £14.99, 0943549698:9780943549699 , Truman State University Press } |
| SOLITON : Poems [Roald Hoffmann] In Roald Hoffmann's fourth collection of poetry, 'Soliton', we face the full scope and power of his outlook -- he writes of nature and bittersweet love, Jewish themes and his Holocaust survival. His poems build on phrases and words under stress, with great respect for the power of the language. Sometimes they are funny, and always carefully observed and reflective. His work is intriguing, mysterious, ambitious, and accomplished. { 86pp, 155x230mm, May 2003; PB, £9.99, 1931112193:9781931112192 , Truman State University Press } |
| SIN & THE CALVINISTS : Morals Control & the Consistory in Reformed Tradition [Raymond A Mentzer (ed)] The Calvinists were often seen as much stricter in morals than Lutherans, Catholics, or Anglicans, and as strict as those from the radical reformation. Contributors to this collection look at this stereotype of Calvinists. { 206pp, 155x230mm, January 1994; PB, £14.99, 1931112185:9781931112185 , Truman State University Press } |
| SUN SYMBOLISM & COSMOLOGY IN MICHELANGELO'S 'LAST JUDGMENT' [Valerie Shrimplin] This volume sheds new light on the celebrated Italian artist and his fresco. Here, against the background of the Renaissance, the author uses art historical methods with an interdisciplinary approach to resolve the meaning of the fresco's iconography and circular composition. { 390pp, 215x280mm, October 2001; HB, £43.50, 0943549655:9780943549651 , Truman State University Press } |
| SURELY AS BIRDS FLY [H L Hix] The intelligent, eloquent, and luminous poems in H L Hix' third full-length collection, exceed the amazing promise and scope of his earlier collections of poems. In the three sequences that make up the book, Hix negotiates the cost of knowledge, eros, and dignity, the burden of lamentation and destiny, the mercurial border between matter and spirit. One will not only admire the lucidity of these poems, but will delight at how they weave the language of science, philosophy, and scripture into a voice singular in its complexity and urgency, a voice beyond innocence, a voice tempered in the forge of history. { 72pp, 155x230mm, June 2002; PB, £9.99, 1931112053:9781931112055 , Truman State University Press } |
| TIME, SPACE & WOMEN'S LIVES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE [Enne Jacobson Schutte et al (eds)] This collection offers a variety of approaches to aspects of women's lives. It moves beyond men's prescriptive pronouncements about female nature to women's lived experiences, replacing the singular woman with plural women and illuminating female agency. Contributors to this important collection are leading international scholars and offer strong, substantial, and archival-based research. { 348pp, 155x230mm, November 2001; PB, £23.50, 0943549906:9780943549903 / HB, £29.99, 0943549825:9780943549828 , Truman State University Press } |
| TROUBLED STATE : Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick [Gari Carter] "Troubled State" is the private Civil War journals of Franklin Archibald Dick, a St. Louis attorney and brother-in-law of Union Major General Frank Blair, Jr, who was concerned about keeping Missouri pro-Union during the turbulent Civil War years. Franklin Dick's perspective of important historical events include the early Camp Jackson incident when he was Captain Nathaniel Lyon's assistant adjutant general, and when he served as Missouri's provost marshal general under Major General Samuel Curtis. After the war, Franklin Dick practiced law with Montgomery Blair, President Lincoln's postmaster general. { 269pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; HB, £23.50, 1931112746:9781931112741 , Truman State University Press } |
| TRUMAN IN CARTOON & CARICATURE [James N Giglio] This collection of 263 cartoons portrays the life and times of Harry S. Truman during his years in local and state offices, the US Senate, and as the 33rd US President. It shows a multifaceted Truman that reveals his courage, tenacity, impulsiveness, frustration, stubbornness, petulance -- and above all, his humanity. Truman recognised the 'powerful influence on public opinion' of political cartoons. He appreciated this form of free speech and collected cartoons of more than 150 artists of the period. A rare collection, these cartoons inform, entertain, and provide a prism to view Truman and his presidency. { 304pp, 175x255mm, February 2002; PB, £16.99, 1931112045:9781931112048 , Truman State University Press } |
| UNBRIDLED COWBOY [Joseph B Fussell] This is a riveting first-hand account of a defiant hell-raiser in the wild and tumultuous American Southwest. At the age of fourteen, Joe Fussell hopped trains to escape from school and the authority he scorned. Joe became a roving cowpuncher across the Texas territory, tilling the land, wrangling cattle, and working in livery stables, moving on whenever his feet began to itch. In a time and place with no law, the young cowboy took it upon himself to exact revenge on those who trespassed him or those who were abusing authority. Joe recounts tales of cowboy adventures, narrow escapes, undercover work as a Texas Ranger, and life on the railroads. Even after he was married, a spark of his wild cowboy spirit remained as he continued his work as a railman during the rise of the railroad in the Southwest. In his time on the railroads, Joe worked up from switchman to yardmaster, travelling everywhere from New Orleans to San Francisco. Joe's unadorned prose is as exposed and simple as the wide, open Texas plains. His unpretentious, unique voice embodies the spirit of the old West. { 278pp, 155x230mm, May 2008; PB, £13.50, 1931112770:9781931112772 , Truman State University Press } |
| UNFORTUNATES [William Baer] A unique collection of uncompromising poetic portraits written in the tradition of Masters, Robinson, and the verse portraits of Pound and Eliot. Each portrait has a specific, unsettling tale to tell, and the sum total of these poems provides a powerful commentary on contemporary life in the American fin de siècle. { 66pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; HB, £14.99, 0943549469:9780943549460 , Truman State University Press } |
| VALUING USELESS KNOWLEDGE : An Anthropological Inquiry into the Meaning of Liberation Education [Robert Bates Graber] Robert Graber explores the historical, philosophical, and sociological origins and nature of liberal arts and sciences education and draws on anthropology to show us how much to value such 'useless knowledge'. { 80pp, 115x150mm, October 2001; PB, £3.50, 0943549361:9780943549361 , Truman State University Press } |
| VICTORIAN AMERICA : A Family Record From the Heartland [Margaret Baker Graham] Life in Victorian America is richly detailed in this domestic history of one middle-class family from Missouri. Author Margaret Graham draws from an extensive collection of letters, journals, Bible entries, receipts, newspaper clippings and photographs from 1860 to 1902 to portray the family of boarding house proprietor Margaret Bruin Machette. These letters of Margaret Machette, her four children, and other correspondents focus primarily on familial devotion, deep religious faith, the constancy of work, and a commitment to education during Victorian America. The letters inevitably include references to critical points in American history such as Lincoln's assassination, Jesse James' robberies, controversial political elections, and the Civil War, with an emphasis on how war, epidemics, and drought affected the Machette family. { 276pp, 215x280mm, June 2003; PB, £19.99, 1931112215:9781931112215 , Truman State University Press } |
| VOICES OF THE HEART : Asian American Women on Immigration, Work, & Family [Huping Ling] A firsthand look at Asian women of the Midwest, VOICES OF THE HEART is a comprehensive and comparative oral history that includes Chinese, Japanese, Filipina, Korean, and Asian Indian women as well as the newer Asian groups of Vietnamese, Laotians, Hmong, Thais, and Pakistanis. Huping Ling gathers these women's heartfelt stories about their journeys to America, their aspirations, their strides in education and employment, their cultural heritage, and their family dynamics. The women featured tell how their experiences align with their expectations of life in America, and the challenges of adjusting to a new culture while preserving their own. These colourful personal stories allow for a unique glimpse into the worlds of these often overlooked women. { 385pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £23.50, 1931112681:9781931112680 , Truman State University Press } |
| WATKINS MILL : The Factory on the Farm [Louis W Potts & Ann M Sligar] When Waltus Watkins, a successful farmer and entrepreneur, decided to open a woollen mill on his rural western Missouri property in the late 1850s, he was not just undertaking another commercial venture. By locating the factory on his farm rather than in one of the thriving nearby towns, Watkins was making a conscious decision to blend agriculture and industry. In so doing, he addressed a philosophical question that had been raised a generation before by Thomas Jefferson and others: the role of technology in a largely agrarian society. As the United States entered the Industrial Revolution and then the Civil War, the folkways and nature of work changed drastically. Watkins Mill reflects that transition, as Watkins embraced new technologies yet clung to a more traditional and paternalistic management style. In seeking to shape the values and habits of his employee-neighbours through local institutions such as the school and church, he left his mark on an entire community. Sixteen pages of full-colour photos of the mill buildings, machines, documents, and textiles still remaining at the Watkins Mill State Historic Site help tell the story of a distinct midwestern stage of nineteenth-century industrialism, as played out in western Missouri by one enterprising individual. { 216pp, 180x255mm, September 2004; PB, £19.99, 1931112223:9781931112222 , Truman State University Press } |
| WEREWOLVES, WITCHES & WANDERING SPIRITS : Traditional Belief & Folklore in Early Modern Europe [Kathryn A Edwards (ed)] Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious belief and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ghosts, imps, werewolves, and other supernatural entities as populating their world. Embedded within notarial and trial records are accounts that reveal the integration of folkloric and theological elements in early modern spirituality. Drawing from extensive archival research, the contributors argue for the integration of such beliefs into our understanding of late medieval and early modern Europe. REVIEW: "Highly recommended..." -- The Cauldron, May 2003. "This book is a real pleasure to read. ...The editor provides a skilful introduction that helps contextualise and draw out the common themes emerging from such a diverse range of essays." -- Owen Davies, Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 2, 2004. { 226pp, 155x230mm, January 2003; PB, £23.50, 1931112088:9781931112086 / HB, £29.99, 1931112096:9781931112093 , Truman State University Press } |
| WHEN THE RAILROAD LEAVES TOWN -- EASTERN UNITED STATES : American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment [Joseph P Schweiterman] This volume tells of closing rail lines from historic junctions, ageing industrial centres, agricultural villages, and familiar tourist destinations throughout the eastern half of the United States. Joseph Schwieterman takes a look at events that contributed to the demise of railroads in 64 towns and cities distinguished by their notable railroad histories or unusual experiences with rail line abandonment. Rail line abandonment claimed more than half of US rail route mileage during the past 50 years and is accompanied by controversial and unexpected developments -- events affecting communities years after the last train departed. This book is a concise narrative, with contrasting photos of local train stations in their prime and after abandonment. { 350pp, 215x280mm, October 2001; PB, £16.99, 0943549981:9780943549989 / HB, £26.99, 0943549973:9780943549972 , Truman State University Press } |
| WHEN THE RAILROAD LEAVES TOWN -- WESTERN UNITED STATES : American Communities in the Age of Rail Line Abandonment [Joseph P Schwieterman] The history of the American West is an epic tale richly accompanied by railroads. From the Illinois prairie to the shores of Oahu, many legendary rail lines are now just dusty trails bereft of their former significance. These abandoned routes show the profound changes that affect the way we travel and conduct business. Through the use of maps, photographs, and a fast-moving narrative, Schwieterman illustrates the circumstances surrounding the rise and fall of rail service in fifty-eight communities distinguished for their notable railroad histories. { 333pp, 215x280mm, December 2004; PB, £16.99, 1931112142:9781931112147 / HB, £26.99, 1931112134:9781931112130 , Truman State University Press } |
| WHERE HORIZONS GO [Rhina P Espaillat] A collection of unforgettable poems, 'Where Horizons Go' is as compelling as it is technically stunning. The book bridges the sometimes vast distances between the personal and the impersonal, the transitory and the permanent, the imagined and the real, the internal and the external, the self and the other. The language here is always clear, always controlled without sacrificing sincerity or honesty. Read this book again and again and be rewarded every time. { 70pp, 155x230mm, October 2001; PB, £9.99, 0943549566:9780943549569 / HB, £14.99, 0943549558:9780943549552 , Truman State University Press } |
| WITHOUT RESERVATION : New & Selected Poems [John E Smelcer] REVIEW: "These poems clear, rueful, courageous, sardonic, hard-lived, and backed up with a big heart and life-knowledge. Caribou, wolves, the ancestors, the 7-Eleven, the car, the family, are all in Smelcer's focus -- with a deep will to calmly survive and prevail. Poems with a sweet clarity that leaves us with no excuse. To be taken straight." -- Gary Snyder. { 108pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £9.99, 1931112304:9781931112307 , Truman State University Press } |