University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Roosevelt the Reformer
Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington.
Roosevelt the Reformer sheds light on an important chapter in the biography of the flamboyant 26th president of the United States. From 1889 to 1895—before he was a Rough Rider in the Spanish–American...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 9
Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This collection of essays explores how drama can teach political principles and entertain at the same time.
Political commentary is possible through "variety" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville,...
by John Reid, John Henry Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Original copies of the first, 1817, edition of this work are so rare that even the Library of Congress does not have an undamaged copy. Consequently scholars and students of Jackson have had to rely on later, incomplete or bowdlerized editions. It is therefore all the more valuable to have Owsley’s...
Fair to Middlin'
The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In Fair to Middlin', Lynn Willoughby describes the livelihood of the regional antebellum economy surrounding the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River valley and the resulting global impact of this industry. This study focuses on the port of Apalachicola, Florida and the business men who lived the trade,...
Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land
Hymnody in the History of North American Protestantism
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalism. Music and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity...
Brutes or Angels
Human Possibility in the Age of Biotechnology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A guide to the rapidly progressing Age of Biotechnology, Brutes or Angels provides basic information on a wide array of new technologies in the life sciences, along with the ethical issues raised by each.
With stem cell research, Dolly the cloned sheep, in vitro fertilization, age retardation,...
When Colleges Sang
The Story of Singing in American College Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
When Colleges Sang is an illustrated history of the rich culture of college singing from the earliest days of the American republic to the present.
Before fraternity songs, alma maters, and the rahs of college fight songs became commonplace, students sang. Students in the earliest...
by Julian Granberry, Gary Vescelius
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2008
A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492.
This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands...
Patton's Pawns
The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from various domestic postings with unfortunate consequences for mutual trust and respect.
Initially used...
Militant Zionism in America
The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills
a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism.
This book recounts the fascinating and little-known story
of the militant American Zionists who lobbied Congress, rallied American
public opinion,...
Modernity and Progress
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures.
In the 1920s and ‘30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of...
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Robert Penn Warren—Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Scholarship and Criticism” from the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University
Probes the ways in which two major periods in nineteenth-century American literature—Romanticism...
The Astonishment Tapes
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Robin Blaser moved from his native Idaho to attend the University of California, Berkeley, in 1944. While there, he developed as a poet, explored his homosexuality, engaged in a lively arts community, and met fellow travelers and poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer. The three men became the founding...
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...