University Alabama Press imprint: 831 books
A Great Fear
Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion
A Great Fear: Luís de Onís and the Shadow War against Napoleon in Spanish America, 1808–1812 explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when...
Speaking with the Ancestors
Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
This is the first volume comprehensively to explore the dynamics of political interest groups in the twelve southern states – the types of group, lobbyists and lobbying tactics, state regulation of lobbying activity, and the power they exert in the individual states. The authors bring a new dimension...
Governing Narratives
Symbolic Politics and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context.
In Governing Narratives, Hugh T. Miller takes a narrative approach...
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible.
Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of...
Plants from the Past
Works Of Leonard W. Blake & Hugh C. Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Plants from the Past is a fascinating, comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as vigorous subdisciplines within American archaeology. Hugh Carson Cutler and Leonard Watson Blake worked together...
Feeding Cahokia
Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia
Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of ruling...
Wrestlin' Jacob
A Portrait of Religion in Antebellum Georgia and the Carolina Low Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This classic work is an important introduction to the efforts of whites to evangelize African Americans in the antebellum South.
First published in 1979, Wrestlin’ Jacob offers important insights into the intersection of black and white religious history in the South. Erskine Clarke...
A Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In A Universal Theory of Pottery Production, award-winning archaeologist Richard A. Krause presents an ethnographic account of pottery production based on archaeological evidence.
Krause posits that the careful study of an archaeological site’s ceramics can be used to formulate a step-and-stage...
Interpreting Sacred Ground
The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Interpreting Sacred Ground is a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions—and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity—compete for dominance.
The National Park Service (NPS) is known for...
Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866
American Geologist
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Henry Darwin Rogers was one of the first professional geologists in the United States. He directed two of the earliest state geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s. His major interest was Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers saw as great folds of...
by Vincent Ostrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.
A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks
Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
A Confluence of Transatlantic Network demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to engender, promote, and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil...
Christian Reconstruction
The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"Joe Richardson's Christian Reconstruction is a solid addition to historical scholarship on the work of Yankee missionaries among the freedmen during the Civil War and Reconstruction. . . . Without question, this is the most comprehensive history of the American Missionary Association (AMA),...