University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Clarence Cason
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
Clarence Cason belonged to that restless generation of southern intellectuals who, between the world wars, questioned the South's stubborn traditionalism, even as they tried to explain and defend its distinctiveness. From his professorial perch at The University of Alabama, Cason wrote polished essays...
Butterflies of Alabama
Glimpses into Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Butterflies of Alabama is a full-color, richly illustrated guide to the 84 known species of “true” butterflies (Papilionoidea) found within the state’s borders. For more than 14 years, the authors have made a close study of these showy, winged stars of the insect world, pursuing them in a great...
by Mary Duffee
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort....
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution will serve as an indispensable guide for legislators and citizens considering reform of the outdated document.
Alabama’s present constitution, adopted in 1901, is widely viewed as the source of many, if not most,...
by Ethel Armes, James R. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
“The principal authority for the general treatment of the history of coal, and of iron and steel, in
Alabama is the work of Miss Ethel Armes. The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama is a comprehensive
and scholarly work portraying in attractive style the growth of the mineral industries in its
relation...
by Craig Guyer, Mark A. Bailey, Robert H. Mount
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
For nearly 200 million years, Earth has been occupied by reptiles—a lineage of terrestrial vertebrates that includes some, like birds, that have invaded the aerial environment, and others, like turtles, that have invaded aquatic environments. With thirty-nine known species, Alabama harbors more...
Mythical Trickster Figures
Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Mythical Trickster Figures, is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster to appear since Radin's 1955 The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars treat a wide range of manifestations of this mischievous character, ranging from the Coyote of the American Southwest to such...
by Glenn Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama represents
exhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.
The Ku Klux Klan has wielded considerable power both as
a terrorist group and as a political force. Usually viewed as appearing
in distinct incarnations, the...
Prehistoric Indians of the Southeast
Archaeology of Alabama and the Middle South
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
This book deals with the prehistory of the region encompassed by the present state of Alabama and spans a period of some 11,000 years—from 9000 B.C. and the earliest documented appearance of human beings in the area to A.D. 1750, when the early European settlements were well established. Only within...
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court
Circuit Riding in the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
John McKinley and the Antebellum Supreme Court presents a portrait of US Supreme Court justice John McKinley (1780–1852) and provides a penetrating analysis of McKinley’s time and place, the exigencies of his circuit work, and the contributions he made to both American legal history and Alabama.
Steven...
A Right to Read
Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This original and significant contribution to the historiography of the civil rights movement and education in the South details a dramatic and disturbing chapter in American cultural history.
The tradition of American public libraries is closely tied to the perception that these institutions...
A Movement of the People
The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness.
A Movement of the People: The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama is a detailed history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA). The AEQA helped to establish...
by James Benson Sellers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Since its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state. After a brief discussion of slavery under imperial...
New Lights in the Valley
The Emergence of UAB
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s.
While the economy and culture of the post—World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development and networked approaches...