University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations,...
Willa Cather and Material Culture
Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.
Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through...
Border Rhetorics
Citizenship and Identity on the US-Mexico Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States.
A “border” is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The themes of the essays in Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent all coalesce around the general question: "When, if ever, is assent justified?" The question immediate triggers complex and multifaceted considerations of argument and, ultimately, power. In parsing out the nature...
Uneasy in Babylon
Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest Protestant denomination.
Uneasy in Babylon is based on extensive interviews with the most important Southern Baptist conservatives who have assumed control of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Known...
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
In Banning Queer Blood, Jeffrey Bennett frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship. However, with the advent of AIDS came the notion of blood donation as a potentially dangerous process. Bennett argues that the Food and Drug Administration,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
The last quarter of the 18th century was a period of extensive political, economic, and social change in North America, as the continent-wide struggle between European superpowers waned. Native groups found themselves enmeshed in the market economy and new state forms of control, among other new threats...
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room
A Biography of the William Badger,1828-1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger.
Taking a biographical approach to his subject, Peter Kurtz describes three phases of the life of the William...
Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery
Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This...
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
In sharp contrast to many long-standing presumptions about mistrust or animosity between these two groups, this study proposes that Catholic and...
The Border Crossed Us
Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
The Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity.
Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national...
Building a Nation
Chickasaw Museums and the Construction of History and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
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The Chickasaw Nation, an American Indian nation headquartered in southeastern Oklahoma, entered into a period of substantial growth in the late 1980s. Following its successful reorganization and expansion, which was enabled by federal policies...
Lamar Archaeology
Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in...
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed.
Focusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, Getting Right with God examines the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a...