University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Rene Laudonniere
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2001
This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America.
Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States...
Legacy of a False Promise
A Daughter's Reckoning
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The compelling story of a teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.
Margaret Fuchs was thirteen in June 1955 when she learned that her parents had been Communists while working for the U.S. government in the 1930s and '40s. This book chronicles the years during which her parents...
Hemingway and Women
Female Critics and the Female Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers.
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from...
by William S. Dancey, Darlene Applegate, David Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term “Woodland.”
The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West...
Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science
Papers from the Harvard Sesquicentennial Congress
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Interest in Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is today worldwide. Ernest Nagel of Columbia University wrote in 1959 that "there is a fair consensus among historians of ideas that Charles Sanders Peirce remains the most original, versatile, and comprehensive philosophical mind this country has...
Between Contacts and Colonies
Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period.
For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization...
by Patricia Barker Lerch, Lisa J. Lefler, Raymond D. Fogelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002
An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium.
Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession...
by Terry Barnhart, Bruce Bourque, David M. Oestreicher
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In this landmark book, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century.
In 1996, the Society for American Archaeology's Committee on the History of Archaeology established a biennial symposium
named after...
by Gordon Willey, Philip Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
This invaluable classic provides the framework for the development of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century.
In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology—a volume that...
A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia)
And Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
“George W. Nichols’s aptly titled Soldier’s Story is one of the classic narratives of frontline infantry service in the Army of Northern Virginia. Nichols’s 61st Georgia fought in the renowned brigade commanded in turn by General Alexander r. Lawton, General John B. Gordon, and General Clement...
Here and There in Mexico
The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
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Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects...
by Harold Aspiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Explores Whitman’s intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.
Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman’s career as...
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
For more...
Paper Empire
William Gaddis and the World System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.
In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker,...