University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Boundary Conditions
Macrobotanical Remains and the Oliver Phase of Central Indiana, A.D. 1200-1450
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Prehistoric plant use in the Late Woodland of central Indiana.
This book explores the extent to which foodways, an important marker of group identity, can be recognized in charred macrobotanical remains from archaeological sites. From analysis of mere bits of burned plants we can discern what...
Sissy!
The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
An innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys
*Sissy!*The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture expands on recent cultural criticism that focuses on the ways men and boys deemed...
In Defense of Politics in Public Administration
A Value Pluralist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Scholars of public administration have historically too often been disdainful towards politics in the field, viewing political activities and interests as opportunities for corruption, mismanagement, and skewed priorities. Supporters of this anti-political stance have become even more strident in...
Land of Water, City of the Dead
Religion and Cahokia's Emergence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Land of Water, City of the Dead explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs.
Cahokia, the largest city of the Mississippian mound cultures, lies outside present-day East St. Louis. Land of Water, City of...
The Battle over Peleliu
Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The expansionist Japanese empire annexed the inhabited archipelago of Palau in 1914. The airbase built on Peleliu Island became a target for attack by the United States in World War II. The Battle over Peleliu: Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War offers an ethnographic study of how...
On Captivity
A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
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On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98).
Ciges...
Scientific Characters
Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: “Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.” In the aftermath of this dramatic news,...
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...
Gardens of Prehistory
The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World provided the foundations for a diverse set of complex social developments ranging from the puebloan societies of the American Southwest to the archaic state polities of Mesoamerica and the Andean region. From the tropical forests of Central America...
Lost in the Lights
Sports, Dreams, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A veteran journalist’s collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South.
Sport mirrors life. Or, in Paul Hemphill's opinion, “Sport is life.” The 15 pieces in this compelling collection are arranged along the timeline for an aspiring athlete's dream: “The Dawning,” with stories...
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period.
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America describes, illustrates, and offers nondogmatic interpretations of rituals...
Money and Modernity
Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.
The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly...
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...