A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the grow
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship
"Gertrude Stein is recognized as an iconic and canonical literary modernist. In Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric, Sharon J. Kirsch broadens our understanding of Stein's influence to incl
From the Gospel of Matthew to numerous US Supreme Court justices, many literary and legal sources have observed that how a society metes out punishment reveals core truths about its character. The Pun
In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, William
This keepsake edition of the timeless best-seller 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh reproduces in facsimile the original hardcover version of
"Panic Fiction explores a unique body of antebellum American women's writing that illuminates women's relationships to the marketplace and the links between developing ideologies of domesticity and th
Green Gold is a thorough and valuable compilation of information on Alabama’s timber and forest products industry, the largest manufacturing industry in the state.Alabama has the third-largest comme
Ceniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture.Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women
Technology and Culture in Twentieth-Century Mexico offers a novel approach to Mexican studies by considering the complex relationship between technology, politics, society, and culture. While it is w
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
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quinte
Taming Alabama focuses on persons and groups who sought to bring about reforms in the political, legal, and social worlds of Alabama. Most of the subjects of these essays accepted the fundamental val
"A departure from the traditional orientation that conceived of argumentation as applied logic. . . . [This book] exhibit[s] a concern for the social knowledge generated by a practice of communication
For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the
For the Cherokee, health is more than the absence of disease; it includes a fully confident sense of a smooth life, peaceful existence, unhurried pace, and easy flow of time. The natural state of the
?* Winner of the 2002 Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize for the best manuscript in the field of Southern history submitted to The University of Alabama Press
Feminist issues in avant garde poetry. ? In her now-classic The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding
The incarcerated in America's cultural imagination.The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is repres
A case study of the technological, economic, and intellectual trends during Germany's industrial revolution.The life of Rudolf Diesel, a man who achieved a power plant with the potential for revoluti
Philadelphia and the Development of Americanist Archaeology reveals the crucial role the intellectuals and institutions of Philadelphia played in the development of the science of archaeology. The te
“A retired major general of the Marine Corps offers here an interpretive history of the campaign culminating in the battle of New Orleans, based on a meticulous review of the sources and employing the
An accessible overview of five major issues in sociolinguistics and the relationship between language and power.This book analyzes the key ways in which language constitutes and conveys power and soci
Nine short stories present characters profoundly touched by the defining battle of the Civil War. Ranging from the first day of the conflict to the turn of the 20th century, the stories explore braver
This eagerly anticipated second volume of short stories is offered by nationally acclaimed writer Mary Ward Brown, often referred to as the "first lady" of Alabama letters. With the 11 stories in this
With a new introduction and revised bibliography by the author, this book is the story of a few Confederate ships that did considerable damage to the great U.S. merchant marine fleet during the Civil
In the late 1870s, Jefferson County, Alabama, and the town of Elyton (near the future Birmingham) became the focus of a remarkable industrial and mining revolution. Together with the surrounding count
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium. Southern Indians
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.
Doty (humanities and religious studies, U. of Alabama) focuses not on materials from antiquity, but on modern approaches to myths and rituals in the major schools of interpretation. Rewritten and rest
Covering the entire body of Mark Twain's fiction, Clark Griffith in Achilles and the Tortoise answers two questions: How did Mark Twain write? And why is he funny? Griffith defines and demonstrates Ma
Coale explores the profound influence that the mesmerist andspiritualist 'craze' of the 1840s and 1850s had on Hawthorne's artisticvision and fictional techniques.Nathaniel Hawthorne despised both mes
Distinguished scholars and artists consider the mingling of Eastern and Western cultures and traditions in theatre.The divergent cultures of East and West had been completely separated from one anothe
Mythical Trickster Figures is the first substantial collection of essays about the trickster figure since Paul Radin's influential 1955 publication of The Trickster. Contributions by leading scholars
People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological
The first edition of Halbert and Ball's Creek War was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes, a bibliography, and an index by Frank L. Owsley Jr., w
A pivotal in the study of history and politics, not only in Alabama but in the other states of the South. Barnard’s account is elegantly concise, the labor of conspicuous scholarship. In an effort to
