University Of Alabama Press: 939 books
by Benjamin A. Steere
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Benjamin A. Steere’s compelling study explores the evolution of houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (ca. 200 BC to 1800 AD).
The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast contributes enormously to the study...
by John Swanton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Long considered the undisputed authority on the Indians of the southern United States, anthropologist John Swanton published this history as the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) Bulletin 103 in 1931. Swanton's descriptions are drawn from earlier records—including those...
Mound Excavations at Moundville
Architecture, Elites and Social Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
How social and political power was wielded in order to build Moundville
This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the...
Unknown Waters
A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
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Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War
This book tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who made the first survey of an...
by Rene Laudonniere
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2001
This translation of an eyewitness account by a major participant offers valuable information about all three attempts to establish a French colony on the south Atlantic coast of North America.
Rene Laudonniere's account of the three attempts by France to colonize what is now the United States...
Fitzgerald's Mentors
Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Legacy of a False Promise
A Daughter's Reckoning
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The compelling story of a teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.
Margaret Fuchs was thirteen in June 1955 when she learned that her parents had been Communists while working for the U.S. government in the 1930s and '40s. This book chronicles the years during which her parents...
Hemingway and Women
Female Critics and the Female Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers.
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from...
by William S. Dancey, Darlene Applegate, David Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term “Woodland.”
The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West...
Charles S. Peirce and the Philosophy of Science
Papers from the Harvard Sesquicentennial Congress
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Interest in Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is today worldwide. Ernest Nagel of Columbia University wrote in 1959 that "there is a fair consensus among historians of ideas that Charles Sanders Peirce remains the most original, versatile, and comprehensive philosophical mind this country has...
Between Contacts and Colonies
Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period.
For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization...
by Patricia Barker Lerch, Lisa J. Lefler, Raymond D. Fogelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002
An important collection of essays that looks at the changing relationships between anthropologists and Indians at the turn of the millennium.
Southern Indians have experienced much change in the last half of the 20th century. In rapid succession...
by Terry Barnhart, Bruce Bourque, David M. Oestreicher
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In this landmark book, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century.
In 1996, the Society for American Archaeology's Committee on the History of Archaeology established a biennial symposium
named after...
by Gordon Willey, Philip Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
This invaluable classic provides the framework for the development of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century.
In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology—a volume that...