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Learning from Birmingham
A steel town daughter’s search for truth and beauty in Birmingham, Alabama “As Birmingham goes, so goes the nation,” Fred Shuttlesworth observed when he invited Martin Luther King …
Oktoberfest in Brazil
Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity is one of the first ethnographies to analyze the tourism industry based on German cultural …
Time in the Barrel
A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War. Con Thien, located only two miles from the demilitarized zone dividing North …
Sowing the Forest
Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests William BalÉe is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology …
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent …
Frogs and Toads of Alabama
A comprehensive taxonomy of the anuran fauna in AlabamaFrogs and Toads of Alabama is the most comprehensive taxonomy of the anuran fauna gathered since Robert H. Mount’s 1975 …
Sustaining Air
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry The poet Larry Eigner (1927–1996) was a key figure in New American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School …
Mieres Reborn
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.Not long ago Mieres, a village in …
This Incurable Evil
Documents how initial Mapuche-Spanish alliances were built and how they were destroyed by increasingly powerful slave-trading elites operating like organized crime families The …
Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials
Investigates the groundbreaking role American women played in commemorating those who served and sacrificed in World War I. In Forgotten Veterans, Invisible Memorials: How American …
I Am Fighting for the Union
An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy On May 18, 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother telling her in clear terms, “I am …
Pulpits of the Lost Cause
A comparison of the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains with intriguing insights about the evolution of their postwar beliefs and the Lost CausePulpits of the Lost …