University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
The Modern Age
Turn-of-the-Century American Culture and the Invention of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
The Modern Age examines the discourses that have come to characterize adolescence and argues that commonplace views of adolescents as impulsive, conflicted, and rebellious are constructions inspired by broader cultural anxieties that characterized American society in early-twentieth-century America.
The...
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early...
Out of Many, One People
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
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As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has...
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics...
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced...
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the “counterfeit,” both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that...
Toxic Tourism
Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered...
Traces of Gold
California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Broadening our understanding of what constitutes "realism," Nicolas Witschi artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West.
From Gold Rush romances to cowboy Westerns, from hard-boiled detective thrillers to nature...
To Come to the Land
Immigration and Settlement in 16th-Century Eretz-Israel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
To Come to the Land makes available in English a vast body of research,
previously available only in Hebrew, on the early history of the land now
known as Israel.
Abraham David here focuses on the Spanish and Portuguese Jews who fled
the Iberian Peninsula during the 16th century, tracing the...
Edith Wharton in Context
Essays on Intertextuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Tintner provides a detailed analysis of the complex interplay between Wharton and James—how they influenced each other and how some of their writings operate as homages or personal jokes. So deeply was James in Wharton’s confidence, Tintner argues, that he provided her with source models for a...
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
This accessible, state-of-the-art review of Mayan hieroglyphics and cosmology also serves as a tribute to one of the field's most noted pioneers.
The core of this book focuses on the current study of Mayan hieroglyphics as inspired by the recently deceased Mayanist Linda Schele. As author or...
by Marilyn M. Cooper, John Muckelbauer, Christa Teston
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.
The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively...
by James Giles
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in 10 contemporary American novels.
James R. Giles examines 10 novels for the unique ways they explore violence and space as interrelated phenomena. These texts are Russell Banks’s Affliction, Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and...
The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent...