University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Warren King Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
This edition of Moorehead's excavations at Cahokia provides a comprehensive collection of Moorehead's investigations of the nation's largest prehistoric mound center.
Covering almost fourteen square kilometers in Illinois, Cahokia Mounds State Historic...
Educating the Sons of Sugar
Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite
The education of individual planter classes—cotton, tobacco, sugar—is rarely treated in works of southern history. Of the existing...
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America
An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
William S. Belko’s Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America provides the first comprehensive biography of a pivotal yet nearly forgotten statesman who made numerous key contributions to a transformative period of early American history.
Barbour, a Virginia lawyer, participated in America’s...
by John Merriman Gaus
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
“In this classic, Gaus writes perceptively of the ‘ecology’ of public administration and its relationship to the rise of the administrative state. He recounts how crises and changes in people, place, physical technology, social technology, and philosophy in the first half of the 20th century...
by Wendy St. Jean
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
In the early 1800s, the U.S. government attempted to rid the Southeast of Indians in order to make way for trading networks, American immigration, optimal land use, economic development opportunities, and, ultimately, territorial expansion westward to the Pacific. The difficult removal of...
On the Battlefield of Memory
The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2010
This work is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War. Steven Trout asserts that from the beginning American memory of the war was fractured and unsettled, more a matter of competing sets of collective memories—each set with its own...
The Story upon a Hill
The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In this provocative and thought-provoking volume, Christopher Leise sheds new light on modern American novelists who question not only the assumption that Puritans founded New England—and, by extension, American identity—but also whether Puritanism ever existed in the United States at all.
The...
Caring, Curing, Coping
Nurse, Physician, and Patient Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A popular conception of medical care is that nurses care, physicians cure, and patients cope. The significant theme that runs throughout this volume is that the fundamental mission of medicine is caring, and curing may be only one component of that broad mission. Each of the chapters speaks to that theme, although each approaches it from a different perspective.
by Richard P. Hallion
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
“In The Naval Air War in Korea, Dr. Hallion has captured the fact, feel- ing, and fancy of a very important conflict in aviation history, in- cluding the highly significant facets of the transition from piston to jet-propelled combat aircraft.”—Norman Polmar, author of Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 18th Edition
A Presidential Civil Service
FDR's Liaison Office for Personnel Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
A Presidential Civil Service offers a comprehensive and definitive study of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Liaison Office for Personnel Management (LOPM). Established in 1939 following the release of Roosevelt’s Brownlow Committee report, LOPM became a key milestone in the evolution of...
by Richard Jefferies
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2009
By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had receded by this time, making food more plentiful...
by Victor A. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Modern Organization is a classic text of organization development that addresses the complications that occur in power structures within which workers with specialized skills are managed by superiors without those skills. Thompson is interested in exploring and righting the creative tensions between...
Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm
The Problem of Administrative Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This classic study brings to bear the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration.
The Modern Age
Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterized American society in early-twentieth-century America.
The...