University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Scalia v. Scalia
Opportunistic Textualism in Constitutional Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An analysis of the discrepancy between the ways Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argued the Constitution should be interpreted versus how he actually interpreted the law
Antonin Scalia is considered one of the most controversial justices to have been on the United States Supreme Court....
by Laurent Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This book is an English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert’s 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires. In it, Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek...
by James B. Stoltman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Petrography is the microscopic examination of thin sections of pottery to determine their precise mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to the petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petrography...
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...
Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
In Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey, beloved and best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham presents a spine-tingling collection of Tennessee’s eeriest ghost tales. Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home, Windham traveled from the mysterious...
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...
Come Landfall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The worlds of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Christiane, or Nana, reliving the past in her eighties, her granddaughter Angela, working at a Biloxi casino in her twenties, and their teenage friend Cam, the daughter of a Vietnamese...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term realism. Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently misidentified, and the practices to which it refers are often attacked as monolithically tyrannical, restricting the...
Radical Affections
Essays on the Poetics of Outside
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.
The poets and poetry that...
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in...