University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as “center places.”
Rodning investigates...
by Bernard K. Means
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states—known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition—began to reside regularly in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central...
Ecoviews
Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
The authors offer a fun-to-read perspective on natural history, ecology as a field of study, and the current environmental issues that face our communities and the world.
This lively and entertaining book provides a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the ecology of animals, plants, and...
Germany in Central America
Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Using previously untapped resources including private collections,
the records of cultural institutions, and federal and state government
archives, Schoonover analyzes the German role in Central American domestic
and international relations.
Of the four countries most active in independent...
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican
Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Beginning about 1900 the expanded international role of
the United States brought increased attention to the cultures of other
peoples and a growth of interest in Latin America. The Enormous Vogue of
Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United
States and Mexico from...
Looking South
The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
A comprehensive, ambitious, and valuable work on an increasingly important subject
In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious...
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment.
The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals—their long-term ecological harm versus food...
by Lorraine Murray, Karen L. Belsey, Andrew Millstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans);...
Laboring to Play
Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.
The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and...
by Ales Hrdlicka
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas.
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This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical...
Plains Earthlodges
Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains.
Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers...
Eagle Days
A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Much has been written about America’s war in Vietnam, and an enduring and troubling subtext is the composition of the body of soldiers that made up the U.S. troop deployment: from the initially well-trained and disciplined group of largely elite units that served in the mid-sixties to what has been...
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including...
Speaking with the Ancestors
Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write...