University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple
Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The turn of the 20th century represented one of the most chaotic periods in the nation's history, as immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans struggled with their roles as Americans while white America feared their encroachments on national identity. This book examines Theodore Roosevelt’s...
Malignant Growth
Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful...
Remote Sensing in Archaeology
An Explicitly North American Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
The coming of age of a technology first developed in the 1950s.
All the money spent by the United States space program is not spent looking at the stars. NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs...
Twilight of a Golden Age
Selected Poems of Abraham Ibn Ezra
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Other titles by Leon J. Weinberger:
Anthology of Hebrew Poetry in Greece, Anatolia, and the Balkans
Early Synagogue Poets in the Balkans
Jewish Poets in Crete
Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel ibn Nagrela
Rabbanite and Karaite Liturgical...
The Rock-Art of Eastern North America
Capturing Images and Insight
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Showcases the wealth of new research on sacred imagery found in 12 states and 4 Canadian provinces.
In archaeology, rock-art—any long-lasting marking made on a natural surface—is similar to material culture (pottery and tools) because it provides a record of human activity and ideology...
From Quarry to Cornfield
The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the agriculture of Mississippian communities.
Lithic specialist Charles Cobb examines the political economy in Mississippian communities through a case study of raw material...
Time's River
Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast.
The...
by Joseph M. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.
Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various periods and areas of the Atlantic coast, but their relationships and meanings have not been explicitly...
by Cameron H. Lacquement, Lynne P. Sullivan, Robert J. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium...
The Poisoned Chalice
Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This work examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years. Through study of denominational...
Our Southern Zion
A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The South Carolina low country has long been regarded--not only in popular imagination and paperback novels but also by respected scholars--as a region dominated by what earlier historians called "a cavalier spirit" and by what later historians have simply described as "a wholehearted...
by Nahum Glatzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A fascinating and eclectic collection of twenty-two essays, Essays in Jewish Thought examines and explores divers topics of Jewish thought and history. From Judaism’s view of ancient Rome at its imperial apogee and the Dead Sea Scrolls to Jewish thought in Europe’s revolutions of 1848 and Franz...
Separation of Church and State
Dina de-Malkhuta Dina in Jewish Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
For the Jewish community, the end of the Middle Ages and the emergence of the modern nation-state brought the promise of equal citizenship as well as the possible loss of Jewish corporate identity. The legal maxim dina de-malkhuta dina (the law of the State is law) invoked in Talmidic times to justify...
To Command the Sky
The Battle for Air Superiority Over Germany, 1942-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
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To Command the Sky is a scholarly record of the fight for domination of the skies over western Europe during World War II. It also explains the technical details of the tactics used to defeat the Luftwaffe. This book is important for serious students of World War II or military aviation.