University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
The Westo Indians
Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
A comprehensive study that rescues the Westo from obscurity.
The Westo Indians, who lived in the Savannah River region during the second half of the 17th century, are mentioned in few primary documents and only infrequently in secondary literature. There are no known Westo archaeological sites;...
Captives in Blue
The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Captives in Blue, a study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh’s earlier groundbreaking book Captives in Gray: The Civil War Prisons of the Union, rounding out his examination of Civil War prisoner of war facilities.
In June of 1861, only...
People, Plants, and Landscapes
Studies in Paleoethnobotany
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1997
People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence. Using different methods and theoretical approaches, the essays in this work apply botanical...
Making Pictures in Stone
American Indian Rock Art of the Northeast
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The Indians of northeastern North America are known to us primarily through reports and descriptions written by European explorers, clergy, and settlers, and through archaeological evidence. An additional invaluable source of information is the interpretation of rock art images and their relationship...
The Mark of Rebels
Indios Fronterizos and Mexican Independence
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In The Mark of Rebels Barry Robinson offers a new look at Mexican Independence from the perspective of an indigenous population caught in the heart of the struggle. During the conquest and settlement of Mexico’s Western Sierra Madre, Spain’s indigenous allies constructed an indio fronterizo identity...
by John E. Worth
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
In 1733, General James Edward Oglethorpe officially established the colony of Georgia, and within three years had fortified the coast southward toward St. Augustine. Although this region, originally known as the provinces of Guale and Mocama, had previously been under Spanish control for more than...
A War of Words
The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A rhetorical analysis of Jefferson Davis’s public discourse
Numerous biographies of Jefferson Davis have been penned; however, until now, there had been no substantive analysis of his public discourse as president of the Confederacy. R. Jarrod Atchison’s A War of Words uses concepts from...
by Sharon J. Kirsch
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Gertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric, Sharon J. Kirsch broadens our understanding of Stein’s influence to include her impact on the field of rhetoric.
For humanities scholars as well as popular audiences,...
The Jackson County War
Reconstruction and Resistance in Post–Civil War Florida
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Jackson County War offers original conclusions explaining why Jackson County became the bloodiest region in Reconstruction Florida and is the first book-length treatment of the subject.
From early 1869 through the end of 1871, citizens of Jackson County, Florida, slaughtered their...
Sarah Orne Jewett
Reconstructing Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In her book Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the-century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned...
by Darlene Harbour Unrue
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Katherine Anne Porter Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Porter offering a revealing and intimate portrait of the elusive and complex American writer.
From a fractured and vagabond girlhood in Texas, Porter led a wildly itinerant...
Head Masters
Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced.
Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology—the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character—played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal...
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories
Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Race and Culture in New Orleans Storiesposits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.
Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories...
Warriors Without War
Seminole Leadership in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Warriors Without War takes readers beneath the placid waters of the Seminole’s public image and into the fascinating depths of Seminole society and politics.
For the entire last quarter of the twentieth century, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, a federally recognized American Indian Tribe,...