University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room
A Biography of the William Badger,1828-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger.
Taking a biographical approach to his subject, Peter Kurtz describes three phases of the life of the William...
Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery
Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This...
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
In sharp contrast to many long-standing presumptions about mistrust or animosity between these two groups, this study proposes that Catholic and...
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
In Colonizing Paradise, historian Jefferson Dillman charts the broad spectrum of sentiments that British citizens and travelers held regarding their colonial possessions in the West Indies. Myriad fine degrees of ambivalence separated extreme views of the region as an idyllic archipelago or a nest...
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity.
Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national...
Building a Nation
Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
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The Chickasaw Nation, an American Indian nation headquartered in southeastern Oklahoma, entered into a period of substantial growth in the late 1980s. Following its successful reorganization and expansion, which was enabled by federal policies...
Lamar Archaeology
Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in...
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed.
Focusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, Getting Right with God examines the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a...
Cracker Culture
Celtic Ways in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2012
Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term “Cracker” initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the...
Southern Heritage on Display
Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South
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"From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland...
by Leigh Clemons, Catherine H. Hughes, Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Enacting History is a collection of new essays exploring the world of historical performances. The volume focuses on performances outside the traditional sphere of theatre, among them living history museums, battle reenactments, pageants, renaissance festivals, and adventure-tourism destinations....
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
Arthur Train was a Harvard-educated and well-respected attorney. He was also a best-selling author. Train’s greatest literary creation was...
Panic Fiction
Women and Antebellum Economic Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women’s writing that illuminates women’s relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and the formation of an American middle class.
Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors...
Hardaway Revisited
Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This provocative reanalysis of one of the most famous Early Archaic archaeological sites in the southeastern United States provides a new model for understanding prehistoric settlement patterns.
Since the early 1970s, southeastern archaeologists have focused their attention on identifying the...