University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
When Good Men Do Nothing
The Assassination Of Albert Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."
On June 18, 1954, former state senator Albert Patterson, the Democratic Party's nominee for state attorney general, was shot to death as he left his law office in Phenix City, Alabama, infamous for its prostitution, gambling, bootlegging,...
A Soldier's Story of His Regiment (61st Georgia)
And Incidentally of the Lawton-Gordon-Evans Brigade Army of Northern Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
“George W. Nichols’s aptly titled Soldier’s Story is one of the classic narratives of frontline infantry service in the Army of Northern Virginia. Nichols’s 61st Georgia fought in the renowned brigade commanded in turn by General Alexander r. Lawton, General John B. Gordon, and General Clement...
Here and There in Mexico
The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
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Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects...
by Harold Aspiz
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Explores Whitman’s intimate and lifelong concern with mortality and his troubled speculations about the afterlife.
Walt Whitman is unquestionably a great poet of the joys of living. But, as Harold Aspiz demonstrates in this study, concerns with death and dying define Whitman’s career as...
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
For more...
Paper Empire
William Gaddis and the World System
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists.
In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker,...
Roosevelt the Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington.
Roosevelt the Reformer sheds light on an important chapter in the biography of the flamboyant 26th president of the United States. From 1889 to 1895—before he was a Rough Rider in the Spanish–American...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
by John Reid, John Henry Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy. Consequently scholars and students of Jackson have had to rely on later, incomplete or bowdlerized editions. It is therefore all the more valuable to have Owsley’s...
Fair to Middlin'
The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In Fair to Middlin', Lynn Willoughby describes the livelihood of the regional antebellum economy surrounding the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River valley and the resulting global impact of this industry. This study focuses on the port of Apalachicola, Florida and the business men who lived the trade,...
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism. Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity...
Brutes or Angels
Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A guide to the rapidly progressing Age of Biotechnology, Brutes or Angels provides basic information on a wide array of new technologies in the life sciences, along with the ethical issues raised by each.
With stem cell research, Dolly the cloned sheep, in vitro fertilization, age retardation,...
When Colleges Sang
The Story of Singing in American College Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.
Before fraternity songs, alma maters, and the rahs of college fight songs became commonplace, students sang. Students in the earliest...
by Julian Granberry, Gary Vescelius
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492.
This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands...