Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, it is good to be shifty in a new country, fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics."
Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature ...
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His "Negro Education in Alabama "won Brown University s Susan Colver Rosenberger Book Prize in 1937 and was praised as a landmark by W. E. B. Dubois in "American Historical Review" and by scholars in journals such as "Journal of Negro Education" and the "Journal of Southern History. " A seminal and wide-ranging work that encompasses not only education per se but a keen analysis of the African American experience of Reconstruction and the following...
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His "Neg...
The first edition of Halbert and Ball's "Creek War" was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes, a bibliography, and an index by Frank L. Owsley Jr., was published in 1969. This standard account of one of the most controversial wars in which Americans have fought is again available, with introductory materials and a bibliography revised to reflect the advances in scholarship since the 1969 edition. This facsimile reproduction of the 1895 original provides a full and sympathetic account of the Indians' point of view, from the earliest visit...
The first edition of Halbert and Ball's "Creek War" was published in 1895, and a new edition containing an introductory essay, supplementary notes,...
Lewy Dorman's Party Politics in Alabama From 1850 Through 1860 reveals the flow of political events and the people behind these events during the critical decade preceding the Civil War. Dorman introduces the political leaders who vied for control and influence in the state and clearly explains the sectional rivalries and factional politics that flavored the Alabama political climate. This classic study, complete with statistical data, election maps, and table of election results, provides a good framework for other scholarly works on the period by contemporary historians. The book...
Lewy Dorman's Party Politics in Alabama From 1850 Through 1860 reveals the flow of political events and the people behind these events durin...
This book argues that Confederate soldiers left their posts in significant numbers due largely to the prevalence of poverty on the home front. At the start of the Civil War in 1861, many men in Alabama enthusiastically enlisted. After these husbands, fathers, and brothers-all family breadwinners-marched off to duty, the number of indigent families in the state began to rise dramatically. Inflation, lack of transportation, a drastically decreased labor force, war taxes, and enemy invasion all created an increasingly desperate economic situation, especially in less affluent...
This book argues that Confederate soldiers left their posts in significant numbers due largely to the prevalence of poverty on the home front. <...
This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were both ambitious and confident. Because the economic dislocation of the 1850s made people receptive to a rhetoric that emphasized conspiratorial abolitionists and almost paranoid fear of blacks and strangers, the politicians were able to persuade their constituents that a real crisis did exist and...
This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supp...
In the field known as "the mathematical theory of shock waves," very exciting and unexpected developments have occurred in the last few years. Joel Smoller and Blake Temple have established classes of shock wave solutions to the Einstein Euler equations of general relativity; indeed, the mathematical and physical con sequences of these examples constitute a whole new area of research. The stability theory of "viscous" shock waves has received a new, geometric perspective due to the work of Kevin Zumbrun and collaborators, which offers a spectral approach to systems. Due to the intersection of...
In the field known as "the mathematical theory of shock waves," very exciting and unexpected developments have occurred in the last few years. Joel Sm...
Set in Mobile, Alabama, "Gulf Stream," the 1930 novel by Marie Stanley (Marie Layet Sheip), is an important part of Alabama s literary heritage. A stunning first person performance by a gifted woman novelist, it is the work of Alabama social history, of Alabama women s writing, of the development of realistic Alabama fiction, and most telling, a work about the complexities of race.It is at once the story of a white mixed-race woman in a black world and the story of a black mixed-race woman seeking forbidden love in a white world."
Set in Mobile, Alabama, "Gulf Stream," the 1930 novel by Marie Stanley (Marie Layet Sheip), is an important part of Alabama s literary heritage. A...
