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A case study of raw material procurement, production and usage at Dillow's Ridge, Illinois. The author examines daily life in a chiefdom village that flourished around 1250-1500, providing a window on the specialized tasks of day labourers who produced the stone hoes necessary to feed the village.

A collection of 11 essays addressing the issues of Scotch-Irish history and ethnic identity. It examines values, traditions, demographics, and language, as well as looking at the nature of Ulster society in the 17th and 18th centuries, which shaped the motives for migration to the New World.

Although much is known about the mature Truman Capote - his literary genius and flamboyant life-style - details of his childhood years spent in Alabama have remained obscure. This work explores Capote's formative years, his abandonment by his mother, and his early life in the care of relatives.

This account of the Creek War of 1813 and 1814 includes introductory material and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition. The facsmile reproduction of the 1895 original provides an account of the Indians' point of view.

This compilation, "Talking Together", traces the poet David Ignatow's career from his youthful stance as a working-man-poet, through his gradual midlife recognition by his fellow artists as a voice of distinction, and on through his establishment as an important contemporary poet.

An introduction to statistics, this book explains the importance of statistics to the discipline of dialectology and its relevance to linguists in understanding linguistic data.

A vivid portrait of the man who made Birmingham infamous

Examines current thinking on the interpretation of myths and rituals. The book argues that myths and rituals are important conveyors of cultural values and provides an historical analysis of the subject.

Jeffrey was the resident apparition in the Selma, Alabama, home of nationally-known folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and the inspiration for 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. In Jeffrey Introduces 13 More Southern Ghosts, Windham's disembodied friend roams the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida to recall thirteen more spine-tingling tales.

Offers new theoretical and interpretive contributions to the study of human activity in the Tombigbee River Valley from 1000 BC to AD 1450. The authors have devised a new taxonomic approach that allows them to portray cultures as they gathered momentum and peaked in their potential as social, economic, and political structures.

This book surveys major trends in Yucatan's currents in Mexican historiography, and suggest new departures for regional and local-level research.

These life histories - accounts of hard times and hard work - are a selection of 28 from more than 100, written throughout the state of Alabama by workers and farmers under the Federal Writer's Project of the 1930's.

This book is generally about public administration and particularly about new public administration, a product of the turbulent late 1960s and the 1970s.

Jones has a lyrical mind and meanders through memory and imagination in his poems, fusing them and making them work to surprise the reader with intriguing and challenging images. The collection builds beautifully, each section nurturing the others, and all of it displays Jones's fine talent - keenly intelligent, human, and compassionate.

Roy Hoffman's Almost Family explores the relationship that begins when one person goes to work for another, and their friendship - across lines of race, income, and religion - develops degrees of understanding yet growing misunderstanding. This edition commemorates the 35th anniversary of the book's publication.

An up-to-date and comprehensive herpetological guide to Alabama. This richly illustrated guide provides an up-to-date summary of the taxonomy and life history of lizards and snakes native to, or introduced to, the state.

An innovative and timely examination of the concept of solitude in nineteenth-century American literature. Though solitude, and the lack thereof, is a pressing concern in today's culture of omnipresent digital connectivity, Yoshiaki Furui shows that solitude has been a significant preoccupation since the nineteenth-century.

An exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion. This book explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when Spain was overrun by French armies and, arguably, in its weakest state.

Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the US, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some of their orthodoxies, inviting them to approach familiar stories from new angles, to integrate new methodologies, and to think creatively about the questions this field is well positioned to answer.

A reshaping of traditional understandings of Costa Rica and its national identity. The Saints of Progress chronicles the development of the Tarrazu Valley, a historically remote coffee-growing region. Carmen Kordick traces the development of this region from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Explores world-ending fantasies through the lens of psychoanalysis to reveal their implications for both contemporary apocalyptic culture and the operations of language itself. What accounts for the enduring power of the Bomb as a symbol? What does the prospect of annihilation suggest about language and its limits?

Provides analyses of large datasets from the midcontinent, ranging from tiny charred seeds to the cosmic alignments of mounds, to explore new questions about the religious practices and lives of native peoples. At the core of the book are case studies that explore religious practices from the Cahokia area and surrounding Illinois uplands.