University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering...
by Amy Eisenberg, Amy Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Aymara Indians are a geographically isolated, indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. As rapid economic growth in the area has begun to divert scarce water to hydroelectric and agricultural projects, the Aymara struggle...
SunWatch
Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000–1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian...
by Anca Rosu
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Wallace Stevens dedicated his poetry to challenging traditional notions about reality, truth, knowledge, and the role of language as a means of representation. Rosu demonstrates that Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist...
Cultural Forests of the Amazon
A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award.
Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world.
Until...
Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink
Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Archaeological case studies that explore the rituals and cultural significance of foods in the southeastern United States
Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon,...
Weapons of Choice
The Development of Precision Guided Munitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
History and deployment of smart weapons.
In the United States, efforts to develop precision guided munitions—PGMs—began during the First World War and resulted in an 'aerial torpedo' by the 1920s. While World War II was dominated by large-scale strategic bombing—essentially throwing out...
Popular Stories and Promised Lands
Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Popular Stories and Promised Lands enters a conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might be going by suggesting that possible answers to those questions can be found in the popular stories we encounter at the movies, on television, in popular magazines, and even on the funny...
The Origins of Agriculture
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and JackR. Harlan.
It's a New Day
Race and Gender in the Modern Charismatic Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
It’s a New Day chronicles the rise of women and African American evangelists in the independent charismatic movement in post-World War II America. Billingsley observes current figures such as T. D. Jakes, Joyce Meyer, and Creflo Dollar, who were deeply influenced by charismatic pioneers Oral Roberts...
Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom
Chronology, Content, Contest
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
At its height the Moundville ceremonial center was a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today, Moundville is not only one the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States, but also one of the most...
A Small but Spartan Band
The Florida Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A unit that saw significant action in many of the engagements of the Civil War’s eastern theater.
Until this work, no comprehensive study of the Florida units that served in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) had been attempted, and problems attend the few studies...
The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash
J. Edgar Hoover and Florida's Lindbergh Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades.
In his long and storied...
To Save My Race from Abuse
The Life of Samuel Robert Cassius
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
A fascinating and important figure in black American religious history.
Samuel Robert Cassius was born to a slave mother and a white father in Virginia in 1853 and became a member of the Restorationist Movement (Disciples of Christ) while a coal miner in Indiana. For the rest of his long life...