University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Lacan in Public
Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.
Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire,...
Our Elders Teach Us
Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In this rich and dynamic work, David Carey Jr. provides a new perspective on contemporary Guatemalan history by allowing the indigenous peoples to speak for themselves.
Combining the methodologies of anthropology and history, Carey uses both oral interviews and meticulous archival research...
Enemy in the Blood
Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s...
Grounded Vision
New Agrarianism and the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
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Issues of ecology—both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues—have long been of interest to literary critics and have given rise over the last two...
The Americas That Might Have Been
Native American Social Systems through Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Imagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization.
This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today—politically, economically, culturally—if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American...
Richmond's Priests and Prophets
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Richmond’s Priests and Prophets examines Richmond, Virginia, during the 1940s and 1950s, exploring the ways in which white Christian leaders navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Congress and the Administrative State, 1946-1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Before 1946 the congressional role in public administration had been limited to authorization, funding, and review of federal administrative operations, which had grown rapidly as a result of the New Deal and the Second World War. But in passing the Administrative Procedure Act and the Legislative...
Peripheral Visions
Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Yucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended...
José de Bustamante and Central American Independence
Colonial Administration in an Age of Imperial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Latin American independence histories of the last 150 years have tended to stereotype Captain General Bustamante, governor of the Spanish colony of Guatemala from 1811 to 1818, as a tyrannical arch-villain who personified colonial oppression. Timothy Hawkins, in contrast, examines Bustamante and his...
Barbecue
The History of an American Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
The history of barbecue in the United States has until now remained virtually untold. Barbecue has a long, rich history—a history that formerly could be found only through scattered references in old letters, journals, newspapers, diaries, and travel narratives until this book was written.
Americans...
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss offers a deeply insightful analysis of the efforts by the second administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2006–2010) to resolve a decades-long Marxist insurgency in one of Latin America’s most important nations. Continuing work from his prior books...
Showing Teeth to the Dragons
State-building by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez 2002-2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Kline argues that the first administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez marks a decisive break in a seemingly endless cycle of civil war. Not only were the levels of homicide and kidnapping dramatically reduced, but the state took the offensive against the insurgents, strengthening...
"The Transfiguring Sword"
The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Jorgensen-Earp provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause.
The Women's Social and Political Union, the militant branch of the English women's suffrage movement, turned to arson, bombing, and widespread property...
by N. M. Miller Surrey
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
This volume reveals the wider scope of the French political and economic situation, as well as the minutiae of common barter and trade in Louisiana during the French Régime.
By the time French colonists sought a portion of the New World’s riches, much of those resources had already been...