University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
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...
Mythography
The Study of Myths and Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured,...
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...
by Michael F. Johnson, Lisa D. O'Steen, Dena F. Dincauze
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The southeastern United States has one of the richest records of early human settlement of any area of North America. This book provides the first state-by-state summary of Paleoindian and Early Archaic research from the region, together with an appraisal of models developed to interpret the data....
The Other Movement
Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The Other Movement: Indian Rights and Civil Rights in the Deep South examines the most visible outcome of the Southern Indian Rights Movement: state Indian affairs commissions. In recalling political activism in the post-World War II South, rarely does one consider the political activities of American...
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments, ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy that...
Here I Stand
The Life and Legacy of John Beecher
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Biography of a forgotten poet who used his name and influence to speak up for those on the margins of society.
Few surnames resonate in American history more than Beecher. The family’s abolitionist ministers, educators, and writers are central figures in the historical narrative of the United...
by William J. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Born in Snow Hill, in 1869, William J. Edwards graduated in 1893 from Tuskegee Institute, then under the direction of Booker T. Washington, and set out to find a way to use in his own life the values he had learned at Tuskeegee. He did not have to look far. Edwards toured Wilcox, Monroe, Butler, and...
W. C. Handy
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
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David Robertson charts W. C. Handy’s rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century. The child of former...
The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2
The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 1995
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...
From Conciliation to Conquest
The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for offenses committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama, including looting, safe cracking, the vandalization of homes, and the rape of young black woman. The pillage of Athens violated a government...
by Thomas Jefferson Cypert
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
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Tried Men and True, or Union Life in Dixie highlights in emotional detail the local tensions between Unionists and Confederates in the Civil War South and offers a rare first-person...
The Pen Makes a Good Sword
John Forsyth of the Mobile Register
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This book is a biography of Alabama native John Forsyth Jr. and documents his career as a southern newspaper editor during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. From 1837 to 1877 Forsyth wrote about many of the most important events of the 19th century. He used his various positions...