University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
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...
Ecoviews Too
Ecology for All Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations, in an engaging and informative manner.
Whit Gibbons and Anne R. Gibbons’s Ecoviews Too: Ecology for All Seasons is based on the popular weekly column...
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...
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.
This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians,...
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
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...
Stumbling Its Way through Mexico
The Early Years of the Communist International
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Stumbling Its Way through Mexico records the early attempts by the Moscow-based Communist International to organize and direct a revolutionary movement in Mexico. The period studied, from 1919 to 1929, was characterized at the beginning by a wave of revolutions in Europe that the Bolsheviks expected...
Fanatical Schemes
Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
What was the relationship between rhetoric and slavery, and how did rhetoric fail as an alternative to violence, becoming instead its precursor?
Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric in the 1830s. A common understanding of the antebellum slavery debate is that the increased...
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,...
My Father's War
Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2012
My Father’s War tells the compelling story of a unit of Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II.
The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the only African American infantry division to see combat in Europe during 1944 and 1945,...
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...