University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
by Celeste Ray, Margaret Bennett, Edward J. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage.
During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland...
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones: Ecocriticism and the Liminal from “Invisible Man” to “The Walking Dead,” Lee Rozelle chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II—creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise...
American Denominational History
Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
This work brings various important topics and groups in American religious history the rigor of scholarly assessment of the current literature. The fruitful questions that are posed by the positions and experiences of the various groups are carefully examined. American Denominational History points...
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.
Based primarily oninterviewswith...
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
When the Puritans arrived in the New World to carry out the colonization they saw as divinely mandated, they were confronted by the American wilderness. Part of their theology led them to view the natural environment as “a temple of God” in which they should glorify and serve its creator. The...
by Claudia Durst Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In The Productive Tension of Hawthorne’s Art, Claudia D. Johnson identifies and explores the tension between Nathaniel Hawthorne’s concepts of art and morality by describing its sources, plotting its manifestations, and suggesting how the opposing elements of this tension are finally reconciled.
Hawthorne’s...
Mark Twain in the Margins
The Quarry Farm Marginalia and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
The common characterization of Mark Twain as an uneducated and improvisational writer took hold largely because of the novelist's own frequent claims about his writing practices. But using recently discovered evidence--Twain's marginal notes in books he consulted as he worked on A Connecticut Yankee...
G Company's War
Two Personal Accounts of the Campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1998
**This unique account of combat in World War II provides parallel day-to-day records of the same events as seen by two men in the same company, one an enlisted man, one an officer. **
G Company's War is the story of a World War II rifle company in Patton's Third Army as detailed in the journals...
Creating the Land of the Sky
Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.
In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains...
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Candice Rai’s Democracy’s Lot is an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities. Rai roots her study of democratic politics and publics in a range of urban case studies focused on public art, community policing,...
The Sky on Fire
The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
A fascinating examination of the strategies and uses of air power in the First World War, Sky on Fire covers not only developments in military hardware and tactics but also how public policy and political considerations shaped the ways air power was deployed. Providing an excellent balance of data...
Through a Glass Darkly
Contested Notions of Baptist Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
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Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.
In contemporary discussions of...
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
In this well-informed yet anxious age, public administrators have constructed vast cisterns that collect and interpret a meteoric shower of facts. In Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy, Akhlaque Haque demonstrates that this pervasive use and increasing dependence on information technology...
Reclaiming Queer
Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Reclaiming Queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The late 1980s and early 1990s were a defining historical moment for both queer activism and queer theory in the United States. LGBT communities,...