University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Our Elders Teach Us
Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves.
Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research...
Enemy in the Blood
Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s...
Grounded Vision
New Agrarianism and the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
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Issues of ecology—both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues—have long been of interest to literary critics and have given rise over the last two...
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization.
This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American...
Peripheral Visions
Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Yucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended...
José de Bustamante and Central American Independence
Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Latin American independence histories of the last 150 years have tended to stereotype Captain General Bustamante, governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala from 1811 to 1818, as a tyrannical arch-villain who personified colonial oppression. Timothy Hawkins, in contrast, examines Bustamante and his...
Barbecue
The History of an American Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The history of barbecue in the United States has until now remained virtually untold. Barbecue has a long, rich history—a history that formerly could be found only through scattered references in old letters, journals, newspapers, diaries, and travel narratives until this book was written.
Americans...
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2006–2010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America’s most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books...
"The Transfiguring Sword"
The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Jorgensen-Earp provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause.
The Women's Social and Political Union, the militant branch of the English women's suffrage movement, turned to arson, bombing, and widespread property...
by N. M. Miller Surrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
This volume reveals the wider scope of the French political and economic situation, as well as the minutiae of common barter and trade in Louisiana during the French Régime.
By the time French colonists sought a portion of the New World’s riches, much of those resources had already been...
Kolomoki
Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
The first comprehensive and systematic investigation of a Woodland period ceremonial center.
Kolomoki, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, includes at least nine large earthen mounds in the lower Chattahoochee...
by Reniel Rodríguez Ramos
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taíno were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the...
Caciques and Cemi Idols
The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Cemís are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirit, which the Taínos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with supernatural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human)...
by Divaldo Antonio Gutierrez Calvache, Racso Fernandez Ortega, Pedro A. Alvarado Layos
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the...