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John Steinbeck: the Years of Greatness, 1936-1939
Av The University of Alabama Press, Tetsumaro Hayashi
Häftad, 2002
443 kr
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Morning in June
Defending Outpost Harry
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 2010
411 kr
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By June 1953, the Korean War marked at the outset by extremely fluid advances and retreats up and down the peninsula, had settled into position warfare very near the original pre-war demarcation line between North and South Korea. At this point both sides were fighting to win a peace, to achieve …
Mound Excavations at Moundville
Architecture, Elites, and Social Order
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 2010
873 kr
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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 site's importance and sustained attention by researchers, until now it has …
Master of the Air
William Turner and the Success of Military Airlift
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 2010
581 kr
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In 1948, just as the Cold War was settling into the form it would maintain for nearly half a century, major antagonists the United States and Russia began maneuvering into a series of dangerously hostile encounters. Trouble had broken out in Poland and Czechoslovakia, but it was in Germany, which …
From the Modernist Annex
American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 2010
585 kr
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the majority of women were forced to seek their education outside the walls of American universities. Many turned to museums and libraries, for their own enlightenment, for formal education, and also for their careers. In Roffman's close readings of four …
Scientific Characters
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 2010
527 kr
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Addresses what happens when scientists, patients, and advocates are called to defend themselves in public concerning complex technical matters with direct implications for human life. Sheds light on the challenges faced by scientists and citizens as science becomes more bureaucratized, dispersed, …
Democracy and America'S War on Terror-New Ed
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2006
339 kr
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Peripheral Visions
Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan
Av The University of Alabama Press, Edward D. Terry
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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Yucatan has been called 'a world apart' - cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended to …
Fields of Vision
Essays on the Travels of William Bartram, 1739-1823
Av The University of Alabama Press, Kathryn H. Braund
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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William Bartram was a naturalist, an artist, and the author of ""Travels through North and South Carolina"", ""Georgia"", ""East and West Florida"", ""The Cherokee Country"", the ""Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy"", and the ""Country of the Choctaws"". The book, based …
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Av The University of Alabama Press, L. Antonio Curet
Häftad, 2009
456 kr
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The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5 acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when …
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2015
340 kr
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No state has embraced and preserved its civil rights history more than Alabama. Nor is there a place where that history is richer. ""Alabama's Civil Rights Trail"" tells of Alabama's great civil rights events, as well as its lesser-known moments, in a compact and accessible narrative paired with a …
Recollections of War Times
By an Old Veteran While Under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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Recollections of War Times is a dramatically improved edition of William A. 'Gus' McClendon's memoir of his service in the 15th Alabama Infantry. It has long been recognized as among the rarest books by any veteran of the Army of Northern Virginia. Previously printed in 1909, copies of that edition …
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat, Volume II
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2009
397 kr
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In summer 1863, Confederate General Braxton Bragg was commander of the Army of Tennessee., still reeling from its defeat in January at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Failing to establish a strong defensive position at either Tullahoma or Chattanooga, Bragg saw the heartland of the South gradually slip …
Taming Alabama
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2010
297 kr
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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 values of nineteenth and early twentieth century white southern society; and all believed, or came to …
Twenty-three Minutes to Eternity
The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS ""Liscome Bay
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay. The torpedo struck the thin-skinned carrier in the worst possible place the bomb storage area. The resulting explosion could be seen 16 miles away, literally ripping the Liscome …
LUNA PAPERS, 1559-1561, VOPLS 1 & 2
Av The University of Alabama Press, Herbert Ingram Priestley
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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Air Power and Armies
Av The University of Alabama Press
Häftad, 2009
331 kr
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Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897-1979) was one of Great Britain's most influential airmen. He played a significant role in building the World War II Anglo-American air power partnership as an air planner on the Royal Air Force Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff. …
EDWARD PALMER'S ARKANSAW MOUNDS
Av The University of Alabama Press, Marvin D. Jeter m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
556 kr
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Vision Style in Patrick White (C)
Av The University of Alabama Press
Inbunden, 1989
409 kr
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