University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Once They Had a Country
Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Muriel Gillick draws from a remarkable set of primary source materials, including letters, telegrams, and police records to relate the story of two teenage refugees during World War II. Once They Had a Country conveys well what it was like to establish a new life in a foreign country—over and over...
Cultures of Doing Good
Anthropologists and NGOs
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.
Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental...
Norman Corwin and Radio
The Golden Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Norman Corwin is regarded as the most acclaimed creative artist of radio’s Golden Age (mid 1930s to late 1940s). Corwin worked as a producer for CBS at a time when radio was the centerpiece of American family life. His programs brought high moments to the medium during a period when exceptional...
Rabbi Max Heller
Reformer, Zionist, Southerner, 1860-1929
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This biography of a pioneering Zionist and leader of American Reform Judaism adds significantly to our understanding of American and southern Jewish history.
Max Heller was a man of both passionate conviction and inner contradiction. He sought to be at the center of current affairs, not as...
The Quiet Voices
Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
These wide-ranging essays reveal the various roles played by southern rabbis in the struggle for black civil rights since Reconstruction
The study of black-Jewish relations has become a hotbed of controversy, especially with regard to the role played by Jewish leaders during the Civil Rights...
Bombast And Broadsides
George Johnstone, 1730-1787
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
George Johnstone has never received the scholarly attention he fully merits. Historians have assessed him, usually briefly, as governor of West Florida, or as naval commander, or as a member of parliament. Nevertheless, none has considered his important role in East India Company politics, nor,...
Whenever Two or More Are Gathered
Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
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This study of the critical role of ethics and moral responsibility in the field of public administration, Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite posit that administrative ethics, as presently conceived and practiced, is largely a failure, incapable...
The Good Men Who Won the War
Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
Robert Hunt examines how Union veterans of the Army of the Cumberland employed the extinction of slavery in the trans-Appalachian South in their memory of the Civil War. Hunt argues that rather than ignoring or belittling emancipation, it became central to veterans’ retrospective understanding of...
Beautiful Politics of Music
Trova in Yucatán, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán.
Yucatecan trova is a music genre comprising a type of romantic song that is considered “the soul of Yucatán and Yucatecans.” This first book on Yucatecan trova offers an insider’s view...
The Cultural Prison
Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
The incarcerated in America's cultural imagination.
The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments. The study is based on an analysis...
After War Times
An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune's “After War...
by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Shirley Wilson Logan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.
From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic...
by Henri Peyre
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
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This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.
A-Train
Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
A-Train is the story of one of the black Americans who, during World War II, graduated from Tuskegee (AL) Flying School and served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps’ 99th Pursuit Squadron. Charles W. Dryden presents a fast-paced, balanced, and personal account of what it was like to prepare for a...