University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Patton's Pawns
The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust and respect.
Initially used...
The Klan Unmasked
With a New Introduction by David Pilgrim and a New Author's Note
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Stetson Kennedy’s infiltration and exposure of the KKK.
Militant Zionism in America
The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills
a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism.
This book recounts the fascinating and little-known story
of the militant American Zionists who lobbied Congress, rallied American
public opinion,...
Modernity and Progress
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures.
In the 1920s and ‘30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of...
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Robert Penn Warren—Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Scholarship and Criticism” from the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University
Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism...
by William March
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2011
“March has picked up where Aesop and Don Marquis left off, prick- ing vanities and exposing antics of chronic phonies. . . . Here are damning truths about the Noblest Animal, here is vitriol without venom. richard Brough catches the full flavor in his illustrations.” —New York Times Book Review
The Astonishment Tapes
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Robin Blaser moved from his native Idaho to attend the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944. While there, he developed as a poet, explored his homosexuality, engaged in a lively arts community, and met fellow travelers and poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. The three men became the founding...
Island Lives
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities.
Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in...
by Debra L. Gold
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people.
By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds—reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet—marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape,...
Game Work
Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Video and computer games in their cultural contexts.
As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of...
Hemingway's Neglected Short Fiction
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled
in our time
, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway’s story collection
In Our Time
. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen...
Inside the Eagle's Head
An American Indian College
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
The Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) is a selfdescribed National American Indian Community College in Albuquerque, New Mexico. SIPI is operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, an agency of the U.S. government that has overseen and managed the relationship between the government...
by Vincent Ostrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
by Howard Thomas Foster, Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, Lisa D. O'Steen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540–1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what...