University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Hugo Black
The Alabama Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
“Hamilton writes well and Alabama politics is always fascinating. As narrative history the book is outstanding, and it is easily the best study of Black’s political career.” —American Historical Review
Cattle in the Cotton Fields
A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Cattle raising today is the most widely practiced form of agriculture in Alabama and ranks second only to the poultry industry in terms of revenue. Brooks Blevins not only relates the development and importance of the industry to agricultural practices but also presents it as an integral component...
Cuarto oscuro
Recuerdos en blanco y negro
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2018
A visually stunning graphic memoir of an Argentinian immigrant’s experience during the civil rights movement.
Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro is the long-awaited Spanish-language translation of Lila Quintero Weaver’s critically acclaimed Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White....
Archipelagoes of My South
Episodes in the Shaping of a Region, 1830–1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
"The tourist archipelagoes of my South / are prisons, too, corruptible" writes the poet Derek Walcott. While Walcott refers to the islands of the Caribbean, the analogous idea of a land made into solitary islands by an imprisoned and inherited corruption is historian J. Mills Thornton III’s...
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815–1835
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America...
"Fear God and Walk Humbly"
The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
James Mallory was an uncommon Southerner. Most inhabitants of the Old South, especially the plain folk, devoted more time to leisurely activities--drinking, gambling, hunting, fishing, and just loafing--than did Mallory, a workaholic agriculturalist, who experimented with new plants, orchards, and...
by William Warren Rogers, Robert David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding counties, the area was penetrated by railroads. Surprisingly large deposits of bituminous coal, limestone,...
Birmingham's Rabbi
Morris Newfield and Alabama, 1895-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
American Jewish history has been criticized for its parochial nature because it has consisted largely of chronicles of American Jewish life and has often failed to explore the relationship between Jews and other ethnic groups in America.
Rabbi Morris Newfield led Temple Emanu-El...
Death at Cross Plains
An Alabama Reconstruction Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Reconstruction in the South is a much studies and yet little understood dark epoch in the region’s history; in many areas it was marked by such violence as to have been in all but name guerrilla warfare. Death and Cross Plains is the history of one such clash, and the story of one of its casualties...
The Perfect Lion
The Life and Death of Confederate Artillerist John Pelham
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The South has made much of J. E. B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, but no individual has had a greater elevation to divine status than John Pelham, remembered as the “Gallant Pelham.” An Alabama native, Pelham left West Point for service in the Confederacy and distinguished himself as an artillery...
Raphael Semmes
The Philosophical Mariner
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Naval hero for all the South, Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) sailed two famous Confederate raiders. He outfitted CSS Sumter in 1861 and captured 18 Union merchant ships in six months before the raider was blockaded at Gibraltar. Next he took command of CSS Alabama, an English-built raider, and terrorized...
Among the Swamp People
Life in Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw River Delta
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A collection of colorful and lively personal essays about life in the wilds of Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, Among the Swamp People chronicles the beauties of the delta’s unparalleled natural wonders, the difficulties of survival within it, and an extraordinary community of characters.?
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Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The recognition of child abuse as a troubling social and public health problem along with the documentation required by mandatory reporting laws have made possible the epidemiological investigation of risk factors association with child abuse. Child Abuse in the Deep South is a study of physical and...
Almost Family
35th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The complex friendship between a black housekeeper and her Jewish employer is at the heart of Hoffman’s prize-winning novel about life in the civil rights era South
Nebraska Waters is black. Vivian Gold is Jewish. In an Alabama kitchen where, for nearly thirty years, they share cups of coffee,...