University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations,...
Reading Southern History
Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.
Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts...
by Jennifer R. Mercieca
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Part political history, part rhetorical criticism, Founding Fictions is an extended analysis of how Americans imagined themselves as citizens between 1764 and 1845. It critically re-interrogates our fundamental assumptions about a government based upon the will of the people, with profound...
If It Takes All Summer
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This memoir recounts the struggle against segregation in St. Augustine, Florida, in the early and mid-1960s. In the summer of 1964 the nation’s oldest city became the center of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr., encouraged by President Johnson, a southerner, who made the civil...
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through...
The Punitive Imagination
Law, Justice, and Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Punitive Imagination is a collection of essays that engages and contributes to debates about the purposes...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The themes of the essays in Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent all coalesce around the general question: "When, if ever, is assent justified?" The question immediate triggers complex and multifaceted considerations of argument and, ultimately, power. In parsing out the nature...
Uneasy in Babylon
Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest Protestant denomination.
Uneasy in Babylon is based on extensive interviews with the most important Southern Baptist conservatives who have assumed control of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Known...
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of AIDS came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration,...
Light on the Path
The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2009
A seamless social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and history.
The past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The last quarter of the 18th century was a period of extensive political, economic, and social change in North America, as the continent-wide struggle between European superpowers waned. Native groups found themselves enmeshed in the market economy and new state forms of control, among other new threats...
Cahokia's Complexities
Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns increase understanding of early Mississippian culture and society.
The reasons for the rise and fall of early cities and ceremonial centers around the world have been sought for centuries. In the United States, Cahokia has been the focus...
A Field on Fire
The Future of Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental history
Inspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline....