University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.
This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
Stumbling Its Way through Mexico
The Early Years of the Communist International
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Stumbling Its Way through Mexico records the early attempts by the Moscow-based Communist International to organize and direct a revolutionary movement in Mexico. The period studied, from 1919 to 1929, was characterized at the beginning by a wave of revolutions in Europe that the Bolsheviks expected...
Fanatical Schemes
Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
What was the relationship between rhetoric and slavery, and how did rhetoric fail as an alternative to violence, becoming instead its precursor?
Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830s. A common understanding of the antebellum slavery debate is that the increased...
My Father's War
Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.
The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945,...
Trial Films on Trial
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen
Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908,...
by Laurent Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Laurent Joubert was an important figure in the medical world of the French Renaissance. Born in 1529, he became a doctor at age 29 and shortly thereafter was appointed personal physician to Catherine de Medici and later became physician to three French monarchs. Joubert was an educator as well as...
True Faith and Allegiance
An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
True Faith and Allegiance: An American Paratrooper and the 1972 Battle for An Loc is an intimate and compelling account of the most brutal infantry warfare and is also a critique of the mishandling of America’s departure from Indochina. An unintended consequence of Washington’s stampede to get...
Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
This compelling narrative demonstrates the passionate interest the
Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and
expanding Jefferson's "empire of liberty."
The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans
eager to move away from the crowded...
by John Cimprich
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2002
This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson’s role in emancipation. In Tennessee a significant number of slaves took advantage of the disruptions resulting from...
Trumping Religion
The New Christian Right, the Free Speech Clause, and the Courts
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The first scholarly treatment of the strategies employed by the New Christian Right in litigating cases regarding religion.
Trumping Religion provides a detailed analysis of the five major public-interest law firms that have litigated religion cases in the federal courts between 1980 and 2000....
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics—the...
Mule South to Tractor South
Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2009
The author describes the adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor. After describing the surprising slowness of southern farmers to realize the superiority of the mule over the horse for agricultural labor, Ellenberg...
Perilous Missions
Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air...