University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces
Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Archaeologists and architects draw upon theoretical perspectives from their fields to provide valuable insights into the structure, development, and meaning of prehistoric communities.
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our...
Caribbean Paleodemography
Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Important information on prehistoric island populations and migrations.
According to the European chronicles, at the time of contact, the Greater Antilles were inhabited by the Taino or Arawak Indians, who were organized in hierarchical societies. Since its inception Caribbean archaeology has...
Hispaniola
Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
In 1492 the island of Hispaniola was inhabited by the Taino, an Indian group whose ancestors had moved into the Caribbean archipelago from lowland South America more than 1,500 years before. They were organized politically into large cacicazgos, or chiefdoms, comprising 70 or more villages under the...
by Thomas E. Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological...
An American Rabbi in Korea
A Chaplain's Journey in the Forgotten War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A firsthand account of the American Jewish experience on the frontlines
During the height of the Korean conflict, 1950-51, Orthodox Jewish chaplain Milton J. Rosen wrote 19 feature-length articles for Der Morgen Zhornal, a Yiddish daily in New York, documenting his wartime experiences as well...
Beyond the Blockade
New Currents in Cuban Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This innovative volume builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues. The chapters included herein span a wide range of subjects across the full chronological spectrum. Most...
The Deadly Politics of Giving
Exchange and Violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2006
A clash of cultures on the North American continent.
With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlantic Algonquian Indians and the Spanish Jesuits at Ajacan (1570–72) and English settlers...
by Nicholas Culpeper, Michael A. Flannery
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The first medical book published in the American colonies.
The English Physician is a humble vest-pocket-sized 94-page medical guide for the common person, by the prolific herbalist and author Nicholas Culpeper. It was a staple in 17th-century England, as it was short, written in accessible...
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries—and focuses on a common theme of identity. These essays represent...
Looking for Lost Lore
Studies in Folklore, Ethnology, and Iconography
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
All students of the past bump into what seem to be impenetrable walls and are left looking longingly beyond the barrier for the lore that seems hopelessly lost. This book is an argument that all that information is not necessarily lost. It may just need a different approach–perhaps multidisciplinary,...
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for...
Crossing the Deadly Ground
United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States Army. The most fundamental problem was the dominance of the tactical defensive, when defenders protected by fieldworks could deliver deadly fire from rifles and artillery...
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A Civil War history classic, now back in print.
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Volume I, examines General Braxton Bragg’s military prowess beginning with his enlistment in the Confederate Army in 1862 to the spring of 1863. First published in 1969, this is the first of two volumes...
Ecoviews Too
Ecology for All Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations, in an engaging and informative manner.
Whit Gibbons and Anne R. Gibbons’s Ecoviews Too: Ecology for All Seasons is based on the popular weekly column...