University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906-2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) represents the largest...
Paths to a Middle Ground
The Diplomacy of Natchez, Boukfouka, Nogales, and San Fernando de las Barrancas, 1791-1795
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Spanish imperial attempts to form strong Indian alliances to thwart American expansion in the Mississippi Valley.
Charles Weeks explores the diplomacy of Spanish colonial officials in New Orleans and Natchez in order to establish posts on the Mississippi River and Tombigbee rivers...
A New Vision for Missions
William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2008
“Cam” Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators. This joint effort is now the largest Protestant mission organization in the world, a mission which has dramatically changed the culture of what used to be known...
Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Heightened Expectations is a groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry. Drawing on medical and public health histories as well as on photography, film, music, prose, and other examples from popular culture, Aimee Medeiros...
Barnstorming to Heaven
Syd Pollock and His Great Black Teams
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A rare insider’s perspective on baseball’s great barnstorming age.
The Indianapolis Clowns were a black touring baseball team that featured an entertaining mix of comedy, showmanship, and skill. Sometimes referred to as the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball—though many of the Globetrotters’...
Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity
The National Pastime and American Identity During the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Baseball has long been considered America’s “national pastime,” touted variously as a healthy diversion, a symbol of national unity, and a model of democratic inclusion. But, according to Michael Butterworth, such favorable rhetoric belies baseball’s complicity in the rhetorical construction...
by Michele L. Aldrich, Daniel D. Arden, Martha Coleman Bray
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South offers nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States. Originally presented under the aegis of the Geological Society of America, these essays cover observations and studies made between...
Impact Zone
The Battle of the DMZ In Vietnam, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
A Vietnam War combat memoir from the perspective of an artilleryman.
Impact Zone documents Marine First Lieutenant James S. Brown's intense battle experiences, including those at Khe Sanh and Con Thien, throughout his thirteen months of service on the DMZ during 1967-68. This high-action account...
The Language of Public Administration
Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Coping with the practical problems of bureaucracy is hampered by the limited self-conception and the constricted mindsets of mainstream public administration thinking. Modernist public administration theory, although valuable and capable of producing ever more remarkable results, is limiting as an...
The Environment for Aging
Interpersonal, Social, and Spatial Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The nature and consequences of aging depend on its environmental context, and the literature does not treat the various environmental dimensions in an integrated fashion. The authors introduce a general approach to the human ecosystem, highlighting theoretical and empirical issues necessary to an...
Community over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This ecology of ethics seeks to balance the needs of the individual and those of the various levels of community.
As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos...
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the...
Collards
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Food is essential to southern culture, and collard greens play a central role in the South’s culinary traditions. A feast to the famished, a reward to the strong, and a comfort to the weary, collards have long been held dear in the food-loving southern heart. In Collards: A Southern Tradition from...
The Metal Life Car
The Inventor, the Impostor, and the Business of Lifesaving
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
For centuries sailing vessels crept along the coastline, ready to flee ashore in case of danger or trouble; this worked well until weather or poor sailing drove these ships against an unforgiving coast. Saviors and salvors (often the same people) struggled to rescue both humans and cargo, often with...