University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
Their Blood Runs Cold
Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Their Blood Runs Cold is entertaining, informative reading that not only enhances our understanding of a unique group of animals, but also provides genuine insight into the mind and character of a research scientist.
Whit Gibbons possesses the rare talent of conveying the challenge...
Germany in Central America
Competitive Imperialism, 1821-1929
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Using previously untapped resources including private collections,
the records of cultural institutions, and federal and state government
archives, Schoonover analyzes the German role in Central American domestic
and international relations.
Of the four countries most active in independent...
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican
Cultural Relations between the United States and Mexico, 1920-1935
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Beginning about 1900 the expanded international role of
the United States brought increased attention to the cultures of other
peoples and a growth of interest in Latin America. The Enormous Vogue of
Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United
States and Mexico from...
Looking South
The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
A comprehensive, ambitious, and valuable work on an increasingly important subject
In the Preface to her new study, Latin Americanist Helen Delpar writes, "Since the seventeenth century, Americans have turned their gaze toward the lands to the south, seeing in them fields for religious...
Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment.
The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals—their long-term ecological harm versus food...
by Lorraine Murray, Karen L. Belsey, Andrew Millstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Encounters with American Ethnic Cultures represents a cultural approach to understanding ethnic diversity in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Thirteen chapters, each using an ethnographic field methodology, explore such ethnic experience as the "invisible" (WASPS and African-Americans);...
Laboring to Play
Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.
The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and...
by Ales Hrdlicka
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
A fundamental work on the peopling of the Americas.
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This volume, originally published in 1922, constitutes the most complete summary of anthropological information on Florida up until that point. Not only does it consider all previous research on Florida archaeology, physical...
Plains Earthlodges
Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains.
Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers...
Digital Poetics
Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
In this revolutionary and highly original work, poet-scholar Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry.
In Digital Poetics, Loss Pequeño Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology...
Eagle Days
A Marine Legal/Infantry Officer in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Much has been written about America’s war in Vietnam, and an enduring and troubling subtext is the composition of the body of soldiers that made up the U.S. troop deployment: from the initially well-trained and disciplined group of largely elite units that served in the mid-sixties to what has been...
by William March
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
With an Introduction by Philip D. Beidler
This book was originally published in 1933. It is the first novel by William March, pen name for William Edward Campbell. Stemming directly from the author's experiences with the US Marines in France during World War I, the book consists of 113 sketches,...
Storm of Words
Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014
Storm of Words is a study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions, chief among them developments in natural history and evolution.
Southern Presbyterian theologians enjoyed a prominent position in antebellum...
The Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 people at its height. Fairly well protected from human destruction, the site offers the full range of city components including...