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Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism by Robert L. McDonald 9780817310806
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.95Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to ""deep historical prejudices"" against drama itself and against women... -
Master of the Air: William Turner and the Success of Military Airlift by 9780817316921
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.80In 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... -
The C.S.S. ""Florida: Her Building and Operation by Frank Lawrence Owsley 9780817312817
Booksplease Price: $30.16Commerce raiders such as the Alabama and the Florida were a successful component of the Confederacy's naval campaign against the Union. Devices of a lesser navy, these surface cruisers prowled the... -
Mule South to Tractor South: Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South by George B. Ellenberg 9780817357726
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26The author describes the adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor. After describing the surprising slowness... -
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders by Felice Flanery Lewis 9780817358693
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor's Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his "Army of... -
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey: Commemorative Edition by Kathryn Tucker Windham 9780817358839
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Petrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham,... -
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815: Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans by Tom Kanon 9780817358495
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Tennesseans at War, 1812-1815 by Tom Kanon tells the often forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812.Tennesseans at... -
This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film by Abigail Child 9780817351601
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema... -
Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy by Ella Lonn 9780817312695
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817312695Author Ella LonnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries Dr James E Fickle 9780817362492
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362492Author James E. FickleFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint -
John Steinbeck Goes to War: The Moon is Down as Propaganda by Donald V. Coers 9780817353285
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsA fascinating study of the publication history and public reception of a propaganda work by a major American author... -
United States-Latin American Relations, 1800-1850: The Formative Generations by T. Ray Shurbutt 9780817352738
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29United States - Latin American Relations, 1800 - 1850: The Formative Generations presents the early diplomacy between Central and South American countries and their burgeoning neighbor to the north... -
Panic in Paradise: Florida's Banking Crash of 1926 by Raymond B. Vickers 9780817354145
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsThis book is a story of mismanagement, fraud, government corruption, and cover-up in the banks of Florida and... -
Without Sympathy or Enthusiasm: The Problem of Administrative Compassion by Victor A. Thompson 9780817354343
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Presents the findings and principles of political science, sociology, psychology, and economics on various proposals for the solution of ills traditionally associated with governmental administration... -
Notes on Life by Theodore Dreiser 9780817350239
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33'It has long been known that Dreiser devoted much effort during the final two decades of his lfe to the preparation of a major philosophical work which remained unfinished at his death....The best... -
The Transformation of the Christian Right in the 1980s by Matthew C. Moen 9780817355326
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Chronicles and analyzes the remarkable changes that occurred in the Christian Right from its emergence in the late 1970s through the 1980s.About the AuthorMatthew C. Moen is Dean of the College of... -
Weapons of Choice: The Development of Precision Guided Munitions by Paul G. Gillespie 9780817353537
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26History and deployment of smart weaponsIn the United States, efforts to develop precision guided munitions-PGMs-began during the First World War and resulted in an 'aerial torpedo' by the 1920s... -
Talking Taino: Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective by William F. Keegan 9780817355081
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.95Talking Taino combines more than 45 years that the authors spent conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican... -
Patton's Pawns: The 94th US Infantry Division at the Siegfried Line by Tony Le Tissier 9780817357269
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The 94th US Infantry Division was an organization formed late in the Second World War, made up largely of draft-deferred university students as enlisted men and an officer corps pulled together from... -
This War So Horrible: The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams, 40th Alabama Confederate Pioneer by Hiram Smith Williams 9780817353742
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817353742Author Hiram Smith WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Im -
The Search for Mabila: The Decisive Battle Between Hernando De Soto and Chief Tascalusa by Vernon James Knight 9780817355425
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a... -
Stephen S. Renfroe: Alabama's Outlaw Sheriff by William Warren Rogers 9780817352486
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.ReviewsThis vignette of local southern history... recounts Renfroe's career as sheriff of Sumter County for a little more... -
Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism by Celeste Ray 9780817352868
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCeleste Ray is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of the South, Sewanee,... -
Through a Glass Darkly: Contested Notions of Baptist Identity by Keith Harper 9780817357122
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKeith Harper is the author of The Quality of Mercy: Southern Baptists and Social Christianity, 1890 1920... -
Second Front Now--1943: An Opportunity Delayed by Walter Dunn 9780817355470
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"The author does present a credible challenge to the widely and possibly erroneously held assumption that an... -
The Mound-Builders by Henry Clyde Shetrone 9780817350864
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $38.34With this accessible volume, Henry Clyde Shetrone made available to general readers the archaeological research data and conclusions concerning the ancient mounds and earthworks that dot the... -
The Third Door: The Autobiography of an American Negro Woman by Ellen Tarry 9780817305796
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817305796Author Ellen TarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 319Imprint -
Signs of Power: The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast by Jon L. Gibson 9780817350857
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $38.34By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores... -
Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America by George E. Lankford 9780817354282
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33This book offers a fascinating review of native American myths. Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are... -
Sailor of the Air: The 1917-1919 Letters and Diary of USN CMM/a Irving Edward Sheely by Lawrence Sheely 9780817312084
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"This book differs from the others because it reports the war from an enlisted man's viewpoint. For anyone who is... -
Turtles of Alabama by Craig Guyer 9780817358068
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.34For nearly 200 million years, Earth has been occupied by reptiles-a lineage of terrestrial vertebrates that includes some, like birds, that have invaded the aerial environment, and others, like... -
Out of the Dark: A History of Radio and Rural America Steve Craig 9780817362690
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362690Author Steve CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Scourge of the Caribbean: Charles E. Hawkins, Sailor of Three Republics James M. Denham 9780817362560
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362560Author James M. DenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
American Examples, Vol 5 Michael J. Altman 9780817362577
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362577Author Michael J. AltmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Jean D'Costa 9780817355661
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came... -
Educating the Sons of Sugar: Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana by R. Eric Platt 9780817359515
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters' role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite. The education of individual planter... -
Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases by Kathleen Turner 9780817350482
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $30.95This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of communication and unavailable through other approaches... -
Be not Afraid: A Southern Journey Through Law, Liberty, and Civil Rights Jack Drake 9780817322601
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $90.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817322601Author Jack DrakeFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint -
Chosen Women and Inka Statecraft: Bioarchaeology, Gender, and Foodways at Saqsaywaman Bethany L. Turner 9780817362652
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817362652Author Bethany L. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint -
Exploring Federalism by Daniel J. Elazar 9780817305758
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Explores the roots of federalism, traces its historical development through three stages, and then describes how it has and can be employed to promote workable and effective government systems in...