Filter By
Books (1631)
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Talladega College by The University of Alabama Press 9780817350666
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817350666Author The University of Alabama PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The... -
The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil by Cyrus B. Dawsey
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94During the late 1860s, Southerners dissatisfied with the outcome of the Civil War and fearful of the extent of Union reprisals migrated to Brazil to build a new life. This collection of essays... -
To My Dearest Wife, Lide: Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan, 1853-1855 by M. Patrick Sauer
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €39.63A personal account of Commodore Perry's landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy. George B. Gideon Jr. served as second assistant engineer aboard the USS Powhatan from 1852 to... -
Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States by Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €44.27Mosquitoes of the Southeastern United States is a full-colour, highly illustrated guide to the sixty-four known species of mosquitoes in eleven genera that populate the South--from the Gulf Coastal... -
![The Rape of the Text: Reading and Misreading Pope's ""Essay on Man by Harry M. Solomon](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/989171/7967321/9780817306960__16672.1742186583.jpg?c=1 "The Rape of the Text: Reading and Misreading Pope's ""Essay on Man by Harry M. Solomon")
The Rape of the Text: Reading and Misreading Pope's ""Essay on Man by Harry M. Solomon
Booksplease Price: €48.08The Rape of the Text deconstructs the history of criticism of ""An Essay on Man"" to account for, and to reverse, over 200 years of deformation and trivialization of Pope's text by literary critics,... -
The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration by Vincent Ostrom
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14This revised and expanded third edition extends Ostrom's analysis to account for the most resent developments in American politics, including those of the Clinton and Bush administrations.About the... -
Opening Doors: Perspectives on Race Relations in Contemporary America by Harry J. Knopke
Booksplease Price: €33.06This text contains essays presented during a national race relations conference at the University of Alabama. It explores the progess that has been made in the last 25 years in America in the... -
All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories by Benny Marshall
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €16.49This collection presents 26 accounts of memorable victories and bittersweet failures marking the most significant sports events in Alabama's history, from 1899 through 1994. The stories capture the... -
Lower Piedmont Country: The Uplands of the Deep South by H.C. Nixon
Booksplease Price: €32.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817302146Author H.C. NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint The University of Alabama... -
For the Love of Alabama: Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson by Sam Hodges
Booksplease Price: €22.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817356668Author Sam HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The University of Alabama... -
Grandeur of the Everyday: The Paintings of Dale Kennington by Dale Kennington
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.83A lavishly illustrated overview of the life and work of realist painter Dale Kennington, featuring more than eighty-five of her most renowned works. Grandeur of the Everyday is the first full-length... -
Looking South: The Evolution of Latin Americanist Scholarship in the United States, 1850-1975 by Helen Delpar
Booksplease Price: €37.87This is a comprehensive, ambitious, and valuable work on an increasingly important subject. North Americans have studied Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century, when individuals without... -
The Motherhood Business: Consumption, Communication, and Privilege by Anne Teresa Demo
Booksplease Price: €62.84The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship... -
Speaking of Alabama: The History, Diversity, Function, and Change of Language by Thomas E. Nunnally
Booksplease Price: €53.81Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama. Thomas E. Nunnally's fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with... -
Lakanal the Regicide by John Dawson
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817350208Author John DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The University of Alabama... -
The Cana Sanctuary: History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida by Frank Marotti
Booksplease Price: €43.66Uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute... -
Artistic Liberties: American Literary Realism and Graphic Illustration, 1880-1905 by Adam Sonstegard
Booksplease Price: €52.73Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for... -
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature by Trudier Harris
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.63African American writers have incorporated Martin Luther King Jr. into their work since he rose to prominence in the mid-1950s. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature is a... -
My Father's War: Fighting with the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II by Carolyn Johnston
Booksplease Price: €47.91My Father's War tells the compelling story of a unit of black Buffalo Soldiers and their white commander fighting on the Italian front during World War II. The 92nd Division of the Fifth Army was the... -
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865 by Peter Kurtz
Booksplease Price: €38.13Bluejackets in the Blubber Room explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger.Book InformationISBN... -
Dixie's Great War: World War I and the American South by John Giggie
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €36.69Examining the First World War through the lens of the American South.How did World War I affect the American South? Did southerners experience the war in a particular way? How did regional... -
Ecoviews: Snakes, Snails, and Environmental Tales by Whit Gibbons
Booksplease Price: €22.23This text studies the ecology of animals, plants and their habitats and promotes awareness of pressing environmental issues. The eight informative chapters deliver environmental messages and supply... -
Korean Showdown: National Policy and Military Strategy in a Limited War, 1951-1952 by Bryan R. Gibby
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €43.67A historical analysis of the policies and military strategies applied during the Korean War stalemate period Korean Showdown: National Policy and Military Strategy in a Limited War, 1951-1952 takes... -
The Assault on Progress: Technology and Time in American Literature by J. Adam Johns
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €35.94A belief in progress is a fundamental ethos in American history and culture. ""The Assault on Progress"" probes American literary works that challenge the prevailing notion of technology as a... -
Poetics & Polemics: 1980-2005 by Jerome Rothenberg
Booksplease Price: €43.13Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005 brings together in one volume a wide-ranging selection of essays and commentaries by one of the most significant poets, critics, and translators working with American... -
Jim Crow Guide to the U.S.A.: The Laws, Customs and Etiquette Governing the Conduct of Nonwhites and Other Minorities as Second-C by Stetson Kennedy
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Jim Crow Guide documents the system of legally imposed American apartheid that prevailed during what Stetson Kennedy calls 'the long century from Emancipation to the Overcoming.' The mock guidebook... -
Contemporaries and Snobs by Laura Riding
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.62This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was... -
Writing from the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darien, 1514-1527 by Gonzalo Fernandez De Oviedo
Booksplease Price: €28.24Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo is the 16th-century author of ""Historia general y natural de las Indias"", a general and natural history of the peoples and places he encountered in his travels to... -
The Blues Muse: Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry by Emily Ruth Rutter 9780817359942
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817359942Author Emily Ruth RutterFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint The University of Alabama... -
Theatre History Studies 2023, Volume 42 by Lisa Jackson-Schebetta 9780817371173
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.62The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceTheatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America... -
The Emperor's Last Campaign: A Napoleonic Empire in America by Emilio Ocampo 9780817361259
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Winner of the 2009 Literary Award, sponsored by the International Napoleonic Society/La Societe Napoleonienne Internationale of Montreal, Quebec's Literary CommitteeNapoleon's last campaign didn't... -
From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris 9780817322038
Booksplease Price: €114.48Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new... -
A New Vision for Missions: William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945 by William Lawrence Svelmoe 9780817315931
Booksplease Price: €54.03This title contains a deep biography of the pioneering missionary William Cameron Townsend. ""Cam"" Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and... -
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture by Stephen Miller 9780817355630
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.68What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity... -
Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell by Peter A. Verkruyse 9780817314774
Booksplease Price: €42.94This book examines the rhetorical strategies employed by Alexander Campbell, a key figure in the ""Stone-Campbell"" or Restoration movement, which eventually comprised one of the largest religious... -
Alabama Founders: Fourteen Political and Military Leaders Who Shaped the State by Herbert James Lewis 9780817319830
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €30.50A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically. While much has been written about the significant... -
Deep in the Piney Woods: Southeastern Alabama from Statehood to the Civil War, 1800-1865 by Tommy Craig Brown 9780817319977
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.25A chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama's most overlooked and least studied regions. Much of Alabama's written history concentrates on the Tennessee Valley, the hill counties, and the... -
Presumptions and Burdens of Proof: An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law by James Crosswhite 9780817320171
Booksplease Price: €52.10An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof. In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one... -
The Juarez Myth in Mexico by Charles A. Weeks 9780817351946
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.94In this study, Charles Weeks explains the creation and transformation of on the most powerful secular myths in the Western world, that of Benito Juarez Mexico. The liberal president of Mexico... -
Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather by Paul R. Petrie 9780817314842
Booksplease Price: €44.07In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, W. D. Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. Literature could and should, Howells suggested, mediate across...