University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduces thirteen of...
Epistolary Responses
The Letter in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Epistolary Responses explores the transformative nature of epistolary fiction and criticism in letter form from a largely feminist perspective. While most scholarly work to date has focused on 17th- and 18th-century manifestations of this genre, Bower's study concentrates on epistolary fiction by...
Archaeopoetics
Word, Image, History
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Archaeopoetics explores “archaeological poetry,” ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens up broad new avenues by which contemporary readers may approach the past, illuminating the dense web of interconnections often lost in traditional historiography.
Critic...
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies.
Recent protests around the...
by Charles F. Abel, Arthur J. Sementelli
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Justice and Administration is an ambitious effort to grapple with justice as a theoretical component of the practice of public administration, yet with sufficient theoretical power to be meaningful in philosophy, political studies, and sociology.
The time is ripe for such an effort,...
Comparing Public Bureaucracies
Problems of Theory and Method
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
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The comparative study of public policy once promised to make major contributions to our understanding of government. Much of that promise now appears unfulfilled. What accounts for this decline in intellectual fortunes and change in intellectual...
by Clarke E. Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Character, Community, and Politics revives or redefines a number of fundamental but neglected ideas. Chief among them are commitment, community, responsibility, and character, concepts that scholar of public administrator Clark E. Cochran deftly develops and illuminates through an exploration of...
What Are Stem Cells?
Definitions at the Intersection of Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
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In recent years political, religious, and scientific communities have engaged in an ethical debate regarding the development of and research on embryonic stem cells. Does the manipulation of embryonic stem cells destroy human...
Central America, 1821-1871
Liberalism before Liberal Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Central America and its ill-fated federation (1824-1839) are often viewed as the archetype of the “anarchy” of early independent Spanish America. This book consists of two interralted essays dealing with the economic, social, and political changes that took place in Central...
More Than Bread
Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups...
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectivelyinvestigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
In the eleven essays of The Darkness of the Present, poet and critic Steve...
Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn
Re-imagining the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
This consequential book takes a hard, systematic look at the depiction of blacks, whites, and race relations in Mark Twain's classic novel, raising questions about its canonical status in American literature.
Huckleberry Finn, one of the most widely taught novels in American literature, has...
Richmond's Priests and Prophets
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Richmond’s Priests and Prophets examines Richmond, Virginia, during the 1940s and 1950s, exploring the ways in which white Christian leaders navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative...