University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Soapbox Rebellion
The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the “Wobblies” generated novel forms of class struggle.
From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged...
Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic.
Borders of Visibility offers extremely timely insight into the Dominican Republic’s racist treatment of Haitian descendants within its borders. Jennifer L. Shoaff employs multisited feminist research...
And I Said No Lord
A Twenty-One-Year-Old in Mississippi in 1964
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
In And I Said No Lord, photographer and writer Joel Katz presents a pictorial chronicle of his travels through the shifting islands of fear and loss, freedom and deliverance that was segregated Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964.
In June 1964, college student Joel Katz boarded a...
Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture
A View from the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Investigations of skeletal remains from key archaeological sites reveal new data and offer insights on prehistoric life and health in the
Southeast.
The shift from foraging to farming had important health consequences for prehistoric peoples, but variations in health existed
within communities...
Secrecy and Insurgency
Socialities and Knowledge Practices in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Secrecy and Insurgency deals with the experiences of guerrilla combatants of the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces) in the aftermath of the peace accords signed in December 1996 between the Guatemalan government and guerrilla insurgents.
Drawing on a broad field of contemporary theory,...
Archaeologists as Activists
Can Archaeologists Change the World?
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect...
by Owen Lindauer, Eleanor Conlin Casella, Deborah L Rotman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2009
Institutions pervade social life. They express community goals and values by defining the limits of socially acceptable behavior. Institutions are often vested with the resources, authority, and power to enforce the orthodoxy of their time. But institutions are also arenas in which both orthodoxies...
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
A singular and major historical view of the birth of electronic poetry.
For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners...
by David Ciccoricco
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
The marriage of narrative and the computer dates back to the 1980s, with the hypertext experiments of luminaries such as Judy Malloy and Michael Joyce. What has been variously called "hypertext fiction," "literary hypertext," and "hyperfiction" has surely surrendered...
Gone to Another Meeting
The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
The first comprehensive history of the oldest national religious Jewish women's organization in the United States.
"A comprehensive history of the oldest religious Jewish women's organization in the US, exploring the council's uniquely female approach to such issues as immigrant aid, relationships...
Laying Claim
African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern...
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars “rediscovering” the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their...
by José Kozer
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An English translation from one of Latin America’s most distinguished poets.
José Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to ever win the Pablo...
Hunt the Devil
A Demonology of US War Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture. In it, authors Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner examine the origins of the Devil figure in the national psyche and review numerous examples from US history of the demonization of America’s perceived opponents....