University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
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...
Poor but Proud
Alabama's Poor Whites
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
First published in 1989 by The University of Alabama Press, Poor but Proud was met with critical acclaim and awarded the 1990 Lillian Smith prize in nonfiction, as well as being named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book. This new paperback version will make the classic work available for general...
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...
Motorcycling Alabama
50 Ride Loops through the Heart of Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Motorcycling Alabama is a much-needed guidebook for one of the most beautiful states to explore on two wheels. From the rocky outcrops of the Appalachian plateau to the sugar-white beaches and teal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama is a rider’s paradise.
David Haynes offers...
Taking Christianity to China
Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided...
Jeffrey Introduces Thirteen More Southern Ghosts
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for Windham’s best-selling collection of macabre tales that reveal two hundred years of Alabama’s ghostly secrets, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. One of the...
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
One of the best-known and widely shared books about the South, Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey has haunted the imaginations of generations of delighted young readers since it was first published in 1969. Written by nationally acclaimed folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh,...
Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie
Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Cussing Dixie, Loving Dixie: Fifty Years of Commentary by H. Brandt Ayers collects in one volume the essential writing of the legendary publisher and editor of the Anniston Star.
The decades-long ribbon of prose that spilled from Ayers’s pen captured the epochal milestones of our times, such...
Labor Revolt In Alabama
The Great Strike of 1894
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The Alabama coal miners’ strike of 1894 to gain improved working conditions and to protect themselves from wage reductions. The authors recount the depression of the early 1890s, which set the stage for the strike, and the subsequent use of convict labor, which became a catalyst. The gripping...
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In 2002, the University of Alabama's Department of Religious Studies established the annual Aronov Lecture Series to showcase the works of nationally recognized scholars of religion capable of reflecting on issues of wide relevance to scholars from across the humanities and social sciences. Writing...
Before Brown
Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Before Brown details the ferment in civil rights that took place across the South before the momentous Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954. This collection refutes the notion that the movement began with the Supreme Court decision, and suggests, rather, that the movement originated in the...
Rivers of History
Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Four streams make up the Alabama River system, the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama. Together they flow for more than 900 miles, through some of the most historic regions of the state. This book looks at the way these streams have shaped the lives of the people who lived along them, and how,...
Taming Alabama
Lawyers and Reformers, 1804-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to...