University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
The Text and Beyond
Essays in Literary Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
This book demonstrates that the approaches of literary linguistics extend to the many influences outside it—history, culture, or politics—that contribute to our understanding of language.
Trial Balance
The Collected Short Stories of William March
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The Collected Short Stories of William March
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The construction...
The Savannah River Chiefdoms
Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2005
This volume explores political change in chiefdoms, specifically how complex chiefdoms emerge and collapse, and how this process—called cycling—can be examined using archaeological, ethnohistoric, paleoclimatic, paleosubsistence, and physical anthropological data. The focus for the research is...
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
Case Studies from the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
This book discusses the extent of distrust and the extent of the misunderstandings that exist in the poetry world.
by George H. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
In this first effort to define an American scientific community, originally published in 1968, George Daniels has chosen for special study the 56 scientists most published in the 16 scientific journals identified as “national” during the period 1815 to 1845. In this reprint edition, with a new...
by Shalom Eilati
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Crossing the River is a personal memoir—and more. Against the backdrop of Lithuania’s occupation—first by the Red Army, next by the Germans, and then again by the Russians—it is a story reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied...
by Daniel J. Elazar
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
The release of this book in 1987 prompted a flurry of excellent and complimentary reviews furthering Elazar’s already considerable reputation as the leading contemporary scholar of federalism.
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
by Roy S. Simmonds
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
“Described by José Garcia Villa as America’s ‘greatest short story writer,’ by Alistair Cooke as the ‘the unrecognized genius of our time,’ and by his biographer as ‘one of the most remarkable, talented, and shamefully neglected writers that America has pro- duced,’ William March...
Everybody's Autonomy
Connective Reading and Collective Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author. Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity.
Contemporary avant garde writing has often been overlooked by those who study literature and...
From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights
The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality.
As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely...
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 22
Broadway and Beyond: Commercial Theatre Considered
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
That theatre is a business remains a truth often ignored by theatre insiders and consumers of the performing arts alike. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 22 explore theatre as a commercial enterprise both historically and as a continuing part of the creation, production, and presentation of...