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The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual conventions employed by directors, and the ways trial films offered insights into the events of the late 20th century.

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class.

The first book to focus exclusively on the significance of trial films for both film and legal studies. Chapters cover a variety of topics, such as how and why film audiences adopt the role of the jury, the narrative and visual conventions employed by directors, and the ways trial films offered insights into the events of the late 20th century.

Considers Alexander Hamilton both as a founder of the American republic, steeped in the currents of political philosophy and science of his day, and as its chief administrative theorist and craftsman, deeply involved in establishing the early institutions and policies that would bring his interpretation of the written Constitution to life.

Willa Cather is often pegged as a regionalist, a feminine and domestic writer, or a social realist. In Cather Among the Moderns, Janis P. Stout firmly situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism, something other scholars have hinted at but rarely affirmed.

This definitive biography is the first full account of a fascinating American scientist whose leadership created the modern science of entomology that recognizes both the essential role of insects in natural systems and their challenge to the agricultural food supply that sustains humankind.

Drawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognising the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality.

Explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the twentieth century: 1900-1917, the formative period of city building; 1928-1941, the Great Depression; the mid 1950s, the lasting impacts of the New Deal; and 1962-1975, an intense period of local reform.

An invitation to voyage east leads Ihab Hassan to reflect on his origins in Egypt, on his home in America, and on his host country, Japan. Part memoir, part cultural perception, this volume records a journey, echoing the ""wanderers of eternity."" The result is not a book about ""them"", but rather a book about the author himself, living among others.

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.

An exploration of the nuclear arms race and the dangers arising with the advent of ""limited warfare."" These essays demonstrate that the making of foreign policy is immensely complicated, not subject to easy solution or to simple explanation.

Tells the story of an accomplished jazz master, from his musical apprenticeship under John T. "Fess" Whatley and his time touring with Sun Ra and Duke Ellington to his own inspiring work as an educator and bandleader. Central to this narrative is the often-overlooked story of Birmingham's unique jazz tradition and community.

Explores how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman's place on its ear, this collection studies Gilman's writings and the manner in which they push back against societal norms and reject male-dominated confines of space.

Beginning with an examination of Willa Cather's Virginia childhood and the southern influences that continued to mold her during the Nebraska years, Joyce McDonald traces the effects of those influences in Cather's novels.

Highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. James Wynn analyses the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data.

Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This book is the most detailed study of the military aspects of the American intervention in Siberia ever undertaken, offering a multitude of details not available in any other book-length history.

A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers. Each chapter in this volume elaborates on a crucial aspect of F. Scott Fitzgerald's depiction of American society, specifically through the lens of the social sciences that most influenced Fitzgerald's writing and thinking.

Analyses Jefferson Davis's public discourse, arguing that throughout his time as president of the Confederacy, Davis settled for short-term rhetorical successes at the expense of creating more substantive and meaningful messages for himself and his constituents.

Professor Franklin's book is guided by the assumption that Americans everywhere can find satisfaction in understanding the dynamics of social and political change, and they can be buoyed by the individual triumph of a person who beat the odds.

In tandem with an analysis of the basic purpose and rationale of urban planning, Peter Self discusses the achievements and failures of different types of planning authorities. Self argues that the urban region is at a political and organizational crossroads, as it must grapple with the problems of urban sprawl.

A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development. Central to understanding Alabama's territorial and early statehood years, the Federal Road was both a physical and symbolic thoroughfare that cut a swath of shattering change through Alabama.

An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of Alabama's origins. The story of the remarkable changes that occurred within Alabama as it transitioned from frontier territory to a vital part of the American union in less than a quarter century is one of the most compelling in the state's past.

Explores well-known Alabama food traditions to reveal salient histories of the state in a new way. Emily Blejwas pays homage to fourteen emblematic foods, dishes, and beverages, one per chapter, as a lens for exploring the diverse cultures and traditions of the state.

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists. The works of art included in this volume have all emerged from a distinctive milieu that has nourished the creation of powerful visual expressions, statements that are both universal and indigenous.

Truman Capote and the Legacy of 'In Cold Blood' is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.

Edgar and Brigitte is a consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding. Based on personal insights into the lives of her parents and grandparents, Rosemarie Bodenheimer reconstructs the experience of German Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century America.

"The Poisoned Chalice" examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years.

A collection of critical essays on ""Maus"", the searing account of one Holocaust survivor's experiences rendered in comic book form, this title offers the work the critical and artistic scrutiny that it deserves.

This deeply moving story chronicles the tenacity and vision that carried Carl Elliott from the hills of northwest Alabama to eight distinguished terms in the United States House of Representatives. The life story of Carl Elliott is full of humour and wry wisdom and explains how he made his way across a stage as big as America.

This guide to the rock art of Missouri presents major design motifs, such as birds, serpents, and deer, and links those images to Native American beliefs. It documents an array of pictographs and petroglyphs, analyzing the many aspects of these rock carvings and paintings.