An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original
Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new... Læs mere
Petrography is the minute examination by microscope of rock and mineral samples for the purpose of determining precisely their mineralogical composition. In... Læs mere
A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama's least studied regions. Deep in the Piney Woods offers a... Læs mere
A groundbreaking history that illuminates the foundations of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone (HGH) industry.... Læs mere
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America's evolving national identity.
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain's major late-nineteenth century work
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition.
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South. R. Eric Platt hypothesises... Læs mere
Completing a comprehensive history of America's land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Brings together the latest research on southeastern prairie systems and species, provides a complete picture of an increasingly rare biome, and... Læs mere