University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
This is the first volume comprehensively to explore the dynamics of political interest groups in the twelve southern states – the types of group, lobbyists and lobbying tactics, state regulation of lobbying activity, and the power they exert in the individual states. The authors bring a new dimension...
Governing Narratives
Symbolic Politics and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context.
In Governing Narratives, Hugh T. Miller takes a narrative approach...
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible.
Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of...
Plants from the Past
Works Of Leonard W. Blake & Hugh C. Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Plants from the Past is a fascinating, comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as vigorous subdisciplines within American archaeology. Hugh Carson Cutler and Leonard Watson Blake worked together...
Interpreting Sacred Ground
The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.
The National Park Service (NPS) is known for...
Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866
American Geologist
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Henry Darwin Rogers was one of the first professional geologists in the United States. He directed two of the earliest state geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s. His major interest was Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers saw as great folds of...
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
A Confluence of Transatlantic Network demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to engender, promote, and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil...
Christian Reconstruction
The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"Joe Richardson's Christian Reconstruction is a solid addition to historical scholarship on the work of Yankee missionaries among the freedmen during the Civil War and Reconstruction. . . . Without question, this is the most comprehensive history of the American Missionary Association (AMA),...
Playing House in the American West
Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839-1987
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Examining an eclectic group of western women’s autobiographical texts—canonical and otherwise—Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life.
The controlling metaphor Cathryn...
Acorns and Bitter Roots
Starch Grain Research in the Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
People regularly use plants for a wide range of utilitarian, spiritual, pharmacological, and dietary purposes throughout the world. Scholarly understanding of the nature of these uses in prehistory is particularly limited by the poor preservation of plant resources in the archaeological record. In...
by Gregory D. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent...
The Road South
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words.
In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel facilities...
Genius Belabored
Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
In Genius Belabored: Childbed Fever and the Tragic Life of Ignaz Semmelweis, Theodore G. Obenchain traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling...
Going for Gold
The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
A Fortune 500 company as a pioneer of current gold-mining technology
Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven...