University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Francis J. Mootz
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory**.**
This book describes the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussions of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today,...
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In Lincoln’s Trident, Coast Guard historian Robert M. Browning Jr. continues his magisterial series about the Union’s naval blockade of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Established by the Navy Department in 1862, the West Gulf Blockading Squadron operated from St. Andrews Bay (Panama...
Jewish Continuity in America
Creative Survival in a Free Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.
Jews have historically lived within a paradox of faith and fear: faith that they are an eternal people and fear that their generation...
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
Edith Wharton and Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which...
by Edmond A. Boudreaux
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of Mississippian mounds are tested against the archaeological...
Master of the Air
William Tunner and the Success of Military Airlift
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the US and the USSR began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which...
Sacrifice and Survival
Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
R. Eric Platt examines in Sacrifice and Survival the history and evolution of Jesuit higher education in the American South and hypothesizes that the identity and mission of southern Jesuit colleges and universities...
by Shalom Eilati
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Crossing the River is a personal memoir—and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania’s occupation—first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians—it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied...
by Daniel J. Elazar
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The release of this book in 1987 prompted a flurry of excellent and complimentary reviews furthering Elazar’s already considerable reputation as the leading contemporary scholar of federalism.
Friendship Fictions
The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual’s participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
A criticism often leveled...
by Julian Granberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Taken from the surviving contemporary documentary sources, Julian Granberry's volume describes the grammar and lexicon for the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida and traces the origins of the 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language. Originally privately published...
Full Fathom Five
A Daughter's Search
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at sea in 1943. Her mother quickly remarried into a difficult and troubled relationship, and Mary Lee’s biological father was never mentioned. It was not until her mother died and Mary...
The Central Intelligence Agency
History and Documents
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In late 1974 the U.S. Senate Select Committee on the CIA, headed by Frank Church of Idaho, began collecting documents and materials to buttress the committee hearings on the CIA’s role and activities that were to begin in the fall of 1975. Among the materials prepared for the Church Committee is...
Alone in Mexico
The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the...