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Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0817305203ISBN 13: 9780817305208
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. It was a time when Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders rallied black youth and adults to march for their civil rights, a time when the Ku Klux Klan was active in cities and throughout the countryside of the Deep South, employing 19th-century tactics to intimidate blacks to stay in their place. It was also the year that the worst act of terrorism in the entire civil rights movement occurred just as Birmingham, Alabama, was coming under close national scrutiny.This book tells the story of one grim Sunday in September 1963 when an intentionally planted cache of dynamite ripped through the walls of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and ended the dreams and the lives of four young black girls. Their deaths spurred the Kennedy administration to send an army of FBI agents to Alabama and led directly to the passage of the Civil Rights Act. When the Justice Department was unable to bring anyone to trial for this heinous crime, a young Alabama attorney general named Bill Baxley began his own investigation to find the perpetrators. In 1977, 14 years after the bombing, Baxley brought one Klansman to trial and, in a courtroom only blocks from the bombed church (now a memorial to the victims), persuaded a jury to return a guilty verdict. More than 20 years later two other perpetrators were tried for the bombing, found guilty, and remanded to prison.Frank Sikora has used the court records, FBI reports, oral interviews, and newspaper accounts to weave a story of spellbinding proportions. A reporter by profession, Sikora tells this story compellingly, explaining why the civil rights movement had to be successful and how Birmingham had to change.
Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0817300724ISBN 13: 9780817300722
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. A standard course book for students of linguistics.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (T), 1984
ISBN 10: 081730164XISBN 13: 9780817301644
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. <div><p>Civil Air Transport (CAT), founded in China after World War II by Claire Chennault and Whiting Willauer, was initially a commercial carrier specializing in air freight. Its role quickly changed as CAT became first a paramilitary adjunct of the Nationalist Chinese Air Force, then the CIA's secret "air force" in Korea, then "the most shot-at airline in the world" in French Indochina, and eventually becoming reorganized as Air America at the height of the Vietnam War. William M. Leary's detailed operational history of CAT sets the story in the perspective of Asian and Cold War geopolitics and shows how CAT allowed the CIA to operate with a level of flexibility and secrecy that it would not have attained through normal military or commercial air transportation.</p></div>
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Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0817369015ISBN 13: 9780817369019
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Book by Mark H. Elovitz.
Editore: Brand: University of Alabama Press, 1968
ISBN 10: 0817366040ISBN 13: 9780817366049
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Translated by Emmett Parker. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy.
Editore: Brand: University of Alabama Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0817303790ISBN 13: 9780817303792
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Accounts of ghostly and spiritual happenings at thirteen locations throughout Mississippi.
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Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0817366148ISBN 13: 9780817366148
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. English, Swedish (translation).
Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0817307141ISBN 13: 9780817307141
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by European nations, later to become a permanent part of the United States. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the 19th century, Alabama declared its independence and joined another nation, the Confederate States of America, for its more than four-year history. The state assumed an uneasy and uncertain place in the 19th centurys last 35 years. Its role in the 20th century has been tumultuous but painfully predictable. This comprehensive history, written in the last decade of that century, presents, explains, and interprets the major events that occurred during Alabamas history within the larger context of the South and the nation.Alabama: The History of a Deep South State is the first completely new comprehensive account of the state since A.B. Moores 1935 work. Divided into three main sections, the first concluding in 1865, the second in 1920, and the third bringing the story to the present, the books organization is both chronological and topical.General readers will welcome this modern history of Alabama, which examines such traditional subjects as politics, military events, economics, and broad social movements. Of equal value are sections devoted to race, Indians, women, and the environment, as well as detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many cultural elements-from literature to sport-that have enriched Alabamas history. The roles of individual leaders, from politicians to creative artists, are discussed. There is as well strong emphasis on the common people, those Alabamians who have been rightly described as the bone and sinew of the state.Each section of the book was written by a scholar who has devoted much of his or her professional life to the study of that period of Alabamas past, and although the three sections reflect individual style and interpretation, the authors have collaborated closely on overall themes and organization. The result is an objective look at the colorful, often controversial, states past. The work relies both on primary sources and such important secondary sources as monographs, articles, and unpublished theses and dissertations to provide fresh insights, new approaches, and new interpretations.
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Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 0817367004ISBN 13: 9780817367008
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. NAP. Orange cloth covers with green gilt lettering on spine. 9.25x6.25 with 276 pp including index.
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Editore: Brand: University of Alabama Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0817301682ISBN 13: 9780817301682
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Book by Wildavsky, Aaron.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1977
ISBN 10: 0817351124ISBN 13: 9780817351120
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Focuses on General John Burgoyne's invasion of the American colonies from Canada and the concurrent operation of General Sir William Howe in Pennsylvania, revealing causes of the campaign's failure.
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Editore: Brand: University of Alabama Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0817301690ISBN 13: 9780817301699
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Book by Wildavsky, Aaron.
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Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 0817307087ISBN 13: 9780817307080
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District contradicts earlier interpretations of southern industrialization by showing that Birmingham, which became a leading symbol of the New South, was in fact deeply rooted in the antebellum plantation system and its "peculiar institution," slavery. As Lewis demonstrates, southern businessmen pursued their own indigenous model of economic growth and were selective in how they imported capital, machinery, and technical expertise from outside the region. The racial crises that erupted in Birmingham during the 1960s can be traced, in part, to labor-intensive developmental strategies that were present from the birth of a city that might have become a bastion of industrial slavery if the South had won the Civil War.
Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1979
ISBN 10: 0817300090ISBN 13: 9780817300098
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The Word's Body integrates depth psychology and linguistic philosophy to illuminate a metaphor of the creative process, specifically the performance of literature in public or private as "the word becoming flesh." This book expands the Johannine metaphor to describe the artist/performer/preacher's work of embodying the Word: Creation, Incarnation, and Transformation/Communion: The Words becomes flesh and dwells among us. It is an answer to Susan Sontag's call for an erotics of interpretation.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1989
ISBN 10: 0817304282ISBN 13: 9780817304287
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Rue (religion and philosophy, Luther College) advances the thesis that western culture is presently in a state of intellectual and moral crisis resulting from "amythia," the loss of a widely shared orientation in nature and history and the metaphor of God as person. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1988
ISBN 10: 0817303405ISBN 13: 9780817303402
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Book by Griffith, Benjamin W.
Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1982
ISBN 10: 0817300732ISBN 13: 9780817300739
Da: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condizione: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1994
ISBN 10: 0817306919ISBN 13: 9780817306915
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Raphael Pumpelly was one of America's most noted economic geologists, working in many parts of the United States at a time when growing industrialization was creating a need for expert evaluation of the nation's resources. Born in upstate New York in 1837 and trained at the Royal Academy of Mines in Freiberg, Germany, Pumpelly was a transitional figure in American geology. His life spanned a period that began when most geologists were generalists and ended with geology's emergence as a full-time paid profession with several rapidly growing specialties.Pumpelly himself had a varied career. He developed a silver mine in Arizona while dodging Apache bullets, served as expert adviser to Japan, and administered geological surveys for Missouri and for the United States Geological Survey under John Wesley Powell. He studied the origin of copper ores using the new petrographic microscope and developed a comprehensive theory to account for the origin of loess. He also did a classic study of the structure of the Green Mountains that contributed to a better understanding of the problems surrounding the well-known "Taconic controversy."Exploration and fieldwork had great appeal for Pumpelly. In 1863 he was the first American geologist to explore parts of China, and in the 1880s, while conducting a major geographical and geological survey of the Northwest for the Northern Pacific Railroad, he discovered glaciers in what is now Glacier National Park. At the age of 65 Pumpelly realized a long-standing dream when, with support from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he led a team of geographers and archaeologists on an expedition to Russian Turkestan to search for the original speakers of the Indo-European group of languages. His investigations of the effect of changing climate on early human beings resulted in pioneering contributions to the prehistoric archaeology of Central Asia and to the study of the environmental factors that have affected the growth and decline of prehistoric cultures.Pumpelly's eminence as a scientist was recognized by his election to the National Academy of Sciences and to the presidency of the Geological Society of America, but he counted many artists and writers among his friends, including John La Farge and Henry Adams. He enjoyed a lifestyle that allowed time for independent research, European travel with his family, membership in gentlemen's clubs, and ownership of homes in Newport, Rhode Island, and Dublin, New Hampshire.Pumpelly's life as a geologist and explorer serves to illustrate the growth of geology during what has been called geology's Heroic age, including developments in petrology, geomorphology, structural geology, and soil science. His work contributed to the growth of different fields within geology during this transitional period, and he retained the freedom to pursue a variety of research interests, a freedom that later specialists did not have.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (T), 1988
ISBN 10: 081730357XISBN 13: 9780817303570
Da: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condizione: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1986
ISBN 10: 0817302441ISBN 13: 9780817302443
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Book by Montgomery, Michael.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1984
ISBN 10: 0817301879ISBN 13: 9780817301873
Da: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condizione: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1997
ISBN 10: 0817308792ISBN 13: 9780817308797
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. This is the story of the human effort that went into completing oneof the most complex feats of engineering in Alabama history, the buildingof four major hydroelectric dams by the Alabama Power Company. Between 1910 and 1930 the Alabama Power Company builtfour major hydroelectric Lay Dam (1914), Mitchell Dam (1923),and Jordan Dam (1929) on the Coosa River and Martin Dam (1926) on the TallapoosaRiver. When the turbines began spinning and electricity began to flowfrom the power houses to farms, towns, and cities, Alabama moved from the19th into the 20th century. Constructed in remote areas of the state, the dams wereunique projects, yet they all had elements in common. The company had tobuild transportation networks to get men and material to the sites. Workers,skilled and unskilled, black and white, were recruited, brought in, housed,and fed. When wives and children joined the men, worker camps became towns,with schools, churches, medical clinics, and recreational facilities. Thesetowns were at once a reflection of their culture--and a look into a futurethat electricity would make possible. Putting "Loafing Streams" to Work is the story oflife in the towns and on the jobs. This story will help us better understandthe impact of Alabama Power's early activities and how Alabamians respondedto the forces of industrialization. .
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Editore: Brand: University of Alabama Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0817303804ISBN 13: 9780817303808
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: new. Ghost Stories Alabama.
Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1980
ISBN 10: 0817369082ISBN 13: 9780817369088
Da: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condizione: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0817304819ISBN 13: 9780817304812
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: The University of Alabama Press, 1976
ISBN 10: 0817366113ISBN 13: 9780817366117
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. Book by Marias, Julian.
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Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0817305459ISBN 13: 9780817305451
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: Univ of Alabama Pr (Tx), 1995
ISBN 10: 0817308024ISBN 13: 9780817308025
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condizione: new. First Edition. These essays span five decades and mirror American culture in the postwar years They represent Hassans various topics styles critical methods and social attitudes From formalism in the forties to multiculturalism in the nineties from existential engagements to postmodern dubieties from Paul Bowles Jean Stafford and William Burroughs to Peter Matthiessen Marge Piercey and Christina Dodwell the essays move with the momentum of history But they move critically In sympathy with their subjects they challenge nonetheless the cant and pieties of their moment.
Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0817308563ISBN 13: 9780817308568
Da: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Brand: University Alabama Press, 1983
ISBN 10: 0817301704ISBN 13: 9780817301705
Da: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condizione: Good. Clarence Cason belonged to that restless generation of southern intellectuals who, between the world wars, questioned the South's stubborn traditionalism, even as they tried to explain and defend its distinctiveness. From his professorial perch at The University of Alabama, Cason wrote polished essays for leading national publications while contributing weekly editorials for newspaper readers. As a journalist in academia, he cultivated a broad audience for his eloquent though tentative observations about the "character" of a region that seemed to be a separate province of the nation.In 1935, Cason collected his thoughts in a small book of essays titled 90 in the Shade. In it, he declared that climate and the relaxation afforded by field and stream had given southerners excellent reasons for their notoriously slow pace of life. Still, he wrote, "there is much work that ought to be done below the Potomac." Cason captured the pathos of race relations and other persistent problems and declared that the abominable practice of lynching would end when the best people of the South risked their personal and commercial standing to denounce it. Just days before the book's publication, however, Cason shot himself in his campus office. He left no explanation, but apparently he feared angry reaction from fellow citizens to his mild criticisms and gentle suggestions for change.The University of Alabama Press brought the book back into print in 1983. This new edition of Cason's classic features an introduction by journalist and UA professor H. Bailey Thomson, allowing yet another generation the enjoyment of Cason's perceptive writing, not so much for any remedy he proposed but rather for the open-minded and loving way in which he addressed the region's tragic experience.