University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Barnstorming to Heaven
Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A rare insider’s perspective on baseball’s great barnstorming age.
The Indianapolis Clowns were a black touring baseball team that featured an entertaining mix of comedy, showmanship, and skill. Sometimes referred to as the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball—though many of the Globetrotters’...
by Michele L. Aldrich, Daniel D. Arden, Martha Coleman Bray
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South offers nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States. Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between...
Impact Zone
The Battle of the DMZ In Vietnam, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman.
Impact Zone documents Marine First Lieutenant James S. Brown's intense battle experiences, including those at Khe Sanh and Con Thien, throughout his thirteen months of service on the DMZ during 1967-68. This high-action account...
The Language of Public Administration
Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an...
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the...
Collards
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Food is essential to southern culture, and collard greens play a central role in the South’s culinary traditions. A feast to the famished, a reward to the strong, and a comfort to the weary, collards have long been held dear in the food-loving southern heart. In Collards: A Southern Tradition from...
The Metal Life Car
The Inventor, the Impostor, and the Business of Lifesaving
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
For centuries sailing vessels crept along the coastline, ready to flee ashore in case of danger or trouble; this worked well until weather or poor sailing drove these ships against an unforgiving coast. Saviors and salvors (often the same people) struggled to rescue both humans and cargo, often with...
Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture
A View from the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the
Southeast.
The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed
within communities...
Archaeologists as Activists
Can Archaeologists Change the World?
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect...
Gone to Another Meeting
The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
The first comprehensive history of the oldest national religious Jewish women's organization in the United States.
"A comprehensive history of the oldest religious Jewish women's organization in the US, exploring the council's uniquely female approach to such issues as immigrant aid, relationships...
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars “rediscovering” the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their...
by Laurent Joubert
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
This book is an English translation of the second volume of Laurent Joubert’s 1578 French work Erreurs Populaires. In it, Joubert proposed to dispel folk remedies and folklore still relied on by doctors and care-givers in France. It also challenged medical theories and advice from classical Greek...
Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
In Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey, beloved and best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham presents a spine-tingling collection of Tennessee’s eeriest ghost tales. Accompanied by her faithful companion, Jeffrey, a friendly spirit who resided in her home, Windham traveled from the mysterious...
Come Landfall
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The worlds of three women and the men they love come together in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal. Christiane, or Nana, reliving the past in her eighties, her granddaughter Angela, working at a Biloxi casino in her twenties, and their teenage friend Cam, the daughter of a Vietnamese...