University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
Hope's Promise
Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This eloquent study describes the complex process of assimilation that occurred among multi-ethnic groups in Wachovia, the evangelical community that settled a 100,000-acre tract in Piedmont North Carolina from 1750 to 1860. It counters commonplace notions that evangelicalism was a divisive force...
Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley
12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Plants are inarguably a significant component of the diets of foraging peoples in non-arctic environments. As such, the decisions and activities associated with the gathering and exploitation of plants are important to foragers’ subsistence pursuits. Plant remains are particularly important for...
Their Blood Runs Cold
Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Their Blood Runs Cold is entertaining, informative reading that not only enhances our understanding of a unique group of animals, but also provides genuine insight into the mind and character of a research scientist.
Whit Gibbons possesses the rare talent of conveying the challenge...
Digital Poetics
Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
In this revolutionary and highly original work, poet-scholar Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry.
In Digital Poetics, Loss Pequeño Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology...
by William March
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler
This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches,...
Storm of Words
Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Storm of Words is a study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions, chief among them developments in natural history and evolution.
Southern Presbyterian theologians enjoyed a prominent position in antebellum...
A Great Fear
Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion
A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when...
Feeding Cahokia
Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia
Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of ruling...
Wrestlin' Jacob
A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This classic work is an important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South.
First published in 1979, Wrestlin’ Jacob offers important insights into the intersection of black and white religious history in the South. Erskine Clarke...
A Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In A Universal Theory of Pottery Production, award-winning archaeologist Richard A. Krause presents an ethnographic account of pottery production based on archaeological evidence.
Krause posits that the careful study of an archaeological site’s ceramics can be used to formulate a step-and-stage...
Recursive Desire
Rereading Epic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent one--the Freudian masterplot of Oedipus slaying the father to possess the mother. The limited usefulness...
by Laura Riding
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.
Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position...
Tohopeka
Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.
Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama...
In the Path of the Storms
Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama’s most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the proud inhabitants of these communities have extracted their modest livings from the sea, sustained by a lesson handed...