University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Island Lives
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities.
Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in...
by Debra L. Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people.
By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds—reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet—marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape,...
Game Work
Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Video and computer games in their cultural contexts.
As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of...
Inside the Eagle's Head
An American Indian College
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a selfdescribed National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIPI is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government...
by Howard Thomas Foster, Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, Lisa D. O'Steen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540–1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what...
by Paul D. Welch
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
100 years of archaeological excavations at an important American landmark.
The Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark, is a late prehistoric community within the boundaries of the Shiloh National Military Park on the banks of the Tennessee River, where one of...
Hemingway's Laboratory
The Paris in our time
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2012
Illuminates the development of Hemingway’s themes and techniques and his future course as a stylist and writer.
In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later...
The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home
Explorations in North American Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century...
Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled
in our time
, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway’s story collection
In Our Time
. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen...
The Road South
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words.
In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel facilities...
Genius Belabored
Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling...
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
Going for Gold
The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
A Fortune 500 company as a pioneer of current gold-mining technology
Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven...
by Roy S. Simmonds
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“Described by José Garcia Villa as America’s ‘greatest short story writer,’ by Alistair Cooke as the ‘the unrecognized genius of our time,’ and by his biographer as ‘one of the most remarkable, talented, and shamefully neglected writers that America has pro- duced,’ William March...