University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South
The Other Invisible Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
John Macaulay's model study of Unitarianism in the antebellum south reestablishes the denomination's position as an influential religious movement in the early history of the region. By looking at benevolent societies, lay meetings, professional and civic activity, ecumenical interchange, intellectual...
At Ease in Zion
Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First published in 1967, Rufus Spain’s thorough investigation into Southern Baptist attitudes set the stage for research on religion in the American South. In At Ease in Zion, Spain questions the titular “ease” with society that Southern Baptists seemed to maintain following the Civil War. His...
Sparrow and the Hawk
Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of Jose Figueres
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Using Costa Rica as a example, Longley carefully examines the development of the successful relationship between a nonindustrialized country and the United States, revealing the complex forces at work in resistance and accommodation.
During World War II and the immediate postwar era, both...
Sweet Cane
The Architecture of the Sugar Works of East Florida
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
A look at the antebellum history and architecture of the little-known sugar industry of East Florida**.**
From the late eighteenth century to early 1836, the heart of the Florida sugar industry was concentrated in East Florida, between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean. Producing...
A World Engraved
Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.
The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from...
Iron and Steel
A Driving Guide to the Birmingham Area Industrial Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look at the people and events that shaped Birmingham into one of America’s leading steel centers. Iron & Steel is heavily illustrated with both color and historical black-and-white photographs....
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane. When first published in 1923, this pivotal work of modernism was widely hailed as inaugurating a truly...
by Roger Pickenpaugh
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Discusses an important yet often misunderstood topic in American history
Camp Chase, located four miles west of Columbus, Ohio, started, as did so many other prisons, as a training camp for eager Union recruits. By late 1861 it was also housing Confederate prisoners. It was also used as quarters...
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
A long sequence of social, cultural, and political processes characterizes an ever-dynamic Caribbean history. The Caribbean Basin is home to numerous linguistic and cultural traditions and fluid interactions that often map imperfectly onto former colonial and national traditions. Although much of...
by Basil A. Reid
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs popular...
by Bradley E. Ensor
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
Bradley E....
A New Day in the Delta
Inventing School Desegregation As You Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him...
by Laurent Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Laurent Joubert (b. 1529) was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. His monumental Treatise on Laughter provides categories and examples of the laughable. The work describes laughter, its causes and effects, its types and differences. His subdivisions and categories,...
by Patty Jo Watson, Janet Rafferty, Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.
The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...