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The Natal Native Contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War

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Africans who fought alongside the British against the Zulu king

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After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a "long look back" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffman tells storiesthrough essays, feature articles, and memoirof one of the South's oldest and most colorful port cities. Many of the pieces here grew out of Hoffman's work as Writer-in-Residence for his hometown newspaper, the Mobile Register, a position he took after working in New York City for twenty years as a journalist, fiction writer, book critic, teacher, and speech writer. Other pieces were first published in the New York Times, Southern Living, Preservation, and other publications. Together, this collection comprises a long, second look at the Mobile of Hoffman's childhood and the city it has since become. Like a photo album, Back Home presents close-up portraits of everyday places and ordinary people. There are meditations on downtown Mobile, where Hoffman's grandparents arrived as immigrants a century ago; the waterfront where longshoremen labor and shrimpers work their nets; the back roads leading to obscure but intriguing destinations. Hoffman records local people telling their own tales of race relations, sports, agriculture, and Mardi Gras celebrations. Fishermen, baseball players, bakers, authors, political figures--a strikingly diverse population walks across the stage of Back Home. Throughout, Hoffman is concerned with stories and their enduring nature. As he writes, "When buildings are leveled, when land is developed, when money is spent, when our loved ones pass on, when we take our places a little farther back every year on the historical time-line, what we have still are stories."

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Brings together for the first time a broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and reveals remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demographic, and diseases  New techniques in osteology have yielded findings on Maya diet and health that challenge the ecological model of collapse. This benchmark collection of essays defined the state of Mayan skeletal studies. Its coverage spans the formative through colonial periods, with a geographic focus on the Maya lowlands of northern Guatemala, Belize, and western Honduras. Bringing together for the first time a broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and revealing remarkable data on Maya genetic relationship, demographic, and diseases, the collection covers divers topics such as osteological, dental, bone chemistry, and DNA analyses. The diet and health status of Maya populations is a major theme, especially in relation to social status, gender, and the historical problem of the "collapse." 

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Jane E. Buikstra, Diane M. Warren, Christine D. White, Lori E. Wright, John P. Gerry, Keith P. Jacobi, David M. Reed, Marie Elaine Danforth, Rebecca Storey, David L. Webster, Carl Armstrong, Diane Z. Chase, Mark N. Cohen, Della Collins Cook, Andres del Angel, Robert E. Ferrell, Stephen L. Whittington, Karen D. Gettelman, Lorena M. Havill, Harold W. Krueger, Nora M. Olivares, Lourdes Marquez, Virginia K. Massey, D. Andrew Merriwether, Kathleen O'Conner, Oswaldo Chincilla Mazariegos, Frank P. Saul, Julie Mather Saul, D. Gentry Steele, David M. Reed, Stephen L. Whittington

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Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent

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A collection of eleven essays presented at the 1982 Biennial Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference, held with the goal of establishing a recurring informal, small colloquium on argumentation theory at which both established and aspiring scholars in the area can present ideas to their colleagues with the prospect of the sort of intensive give-and-take critiques rare in larger conferences. This volume contains select essays that grew out of that interchange.  The eleven essays coalesce around the general question of "When, if ever, is assent justified?" And, as Professor Cox astutely notes in his introduction, such a question immediately leads into considerations of argument and power. In these considerations, many differing perspectives are represented in this volume: aesthetic and symbolist approaches, rationalistic and formalistic approaches, field theory perspectives, orientations toward various conceptualizations of a public sphere, etc.  Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent is intended not as a primer on argument theory but rather as a look at American approaches to a philosophy of argumentation and argument criticism. As such, the essays probe the implications of both current practices and theoretical approaches: the objective is not to map the terrain argumentation theory has traversed in recent years but rather to plot a route for the direction in which argumentation studies should move. The concluding essays by James Arnt Aune and G. Thomas Goodnight confront these concerns explicitly.  

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Examines the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they create to disrupt assumptions about gender and cultural power   In her now-classic The Pink Guitar, Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding a language that would question deeply held assumptions about gender. In the 12 essays and introduction that constitute Blue Studios, DuPlessis continues that task, examining the work of experimental poets and the innovative forms they have fashioned to challenge commonplace assumptions about gender and cultural authority.   The essays in Attitudes and Practices deal with two questions: what a feminist reading of cultural texts involves, and the nature of the essay itself as a mode of knowing: how poetry can be discursive and how the essay can be poetic. The goal of Marble Paper, with its studies of William Wordsworth, Ezra Pound, and Charles Olson is to suggest terms for a feminist history of poetry.   Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, Theodore Adorno wrote, and in the section "Urrealism" DuPlessis examines the work of poets from several schools (the Objectivists, the New York School, the surrealists) whose work embodies that displacement, among them George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, H.D., and Barbara Guest. These writers radical deployment of line, sound, and structure, DuPlessis argues, demonstrate poetrys power not as a purely literary, artistic, or aesthetic force but as a rhetorical form intricately tied to issues of power and ethics. And in "Migrated Into, the author probes the ways these issues have informed her, as a poet and a critic; how the political has migrated into and suffused her own work; and how the practice of poetry can be an arousal to a deeper understanding of what we stand for.  

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Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers  Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization in the Caribbean region. Geoinformatics is especially critical within the Caribbean where site destruction is intense due to storm surges, hurricanes, ocean and riverine erosion, urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture, as well as commercial development along the very waterfronts that were home to many prehistoric peoples. By demonstrating that the region is fertile ground for the application of geoinformatics in archaeology, this volume places a well-needed scholarly spotlight on the Caribbean.

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Roger H. Leech, Joshua M. Torres, David W Knight, Ivor Conolley, Kevin Farmer, Reniel Rodríguez Ramos, Bheshem Ramial, Parris Lyew-Ayee, Stephan Lenik, R. Grant Gilmore III, Eric Klingehofer, Mark W. Hauser, Basil A. Reid

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Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836

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The first comprehensive archaeological survey of the Muskogee (Maskoki) Creek Indians   The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 15401836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what we can learn from their descendants and from archaeological and historical sources.   Combining historical documents and archaeological research on all known Lower Muskogee Creek sites, Thomas Foster has accurately pinpointed town locations discussed in the literature and reported in contemporary Creek oral histories. In so doing, this volume synthesizes the archaeological diversity and variation within the Lower Creek Indians between 1715 and 1836. The book is a study of archaeological methods because it analyzes the temporal and geographic variation within a single archaeological phase and the biases of that archaeological data. Fosters research segregates the variation between Lower Creek Indian towns through a regional and direct historic approach. Consequently, he is able to discern the unique differences between individual Creek Indian towns.    Foster argues that the study of Creek Indian history should be at the level of towns instead of archaeological phases and that there is significant continuity between the culture of the Historic Period Indians and the Prehistoric and Protohistoric peoples.  

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Howard Thomas Foster, II, Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund, Lisa D. O'Steen

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Brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the sites evolution and eventual decline   Built on a flat terrace overlooking the Black Warrior River in Alabama, the Moundville ceremonial center was at its height a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today Moundville is not only one of the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States but also one of the most intensively studied. This volume brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the sites evolution and eventual decline.  

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Christopher S. Peebles, Vincas P. Steponaitis, Lauren M. Michals, Paul D. Welch, Margaret J. Schoeninger, C. Margaret Scarry, Mark R. Schurr, Christopher S. Peebles, Mary Lucas Powell, Vincas P. Steponaitis, Vernon James Knight

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Architectural Variability in the Southeast

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Research into a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast  Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast and includes research on the variation of construction techniques employed both above and below ground. Most of the architecture discussed is that of domestic houses with some emphasis on large public buildings and sweat lodges. The authors use an array of methods and techniques in examining native architecture including experimental archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, multi-variant analysis, structural engineering, and wood science technology. A major portion of the work, and probably the most important in terms of overall significance, is that it addresses the debate of early Mississippian houses and what they looked like above ground and the changes that occurred both before and after the arrival of Europeans.  

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Nelson A. Reed, Cameron H. Lacquement, Lynne P. Sullivan, Robert J. Scott, Robert H. Lafferty, Dennis B. Blanton, Tamira K. Brennan, Mark A. McConaughy, Ramie A. Gougeon, Thomas H. Gresham, Cameron H. Lacquement

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A key illustrated guide to artifacts and other findings from archaeological excavations along the coastal areas of Belize. Starting with the canal location, archaeologists were able to reconstruct 19 settlements on Ambergris Caye. Their findings offer tantalizing clues about the nature of Maya coastal civilization and their extensive maritime trade network.

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The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper

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A study of realism and folk literature and of the sources and techniques of storytelling  Alias Simon Suggs is a study in the life and writings of Johnson J. Hooper of Alabama, and is a masterful contribution to American biography and to American literature.   Extensively documented with illuminating footnotes and revealing references, its style is direct and captivating and will appeal to those who enjoy entertaining biography will relish the privilege of reading it.

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The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 18451848

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The first-ever English translation of the memoirs of botanist and naturalist Karl Heller  This volume is the first-ever English translation of the memoirs of Karl Heller, a twenty-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845 to collect specimens. He passed through the Caribbean, lived for a time in the mountains of Veracruz, and journeyed to Mexico City through the cities of Puebla and Cholula. After a brief residence in the capital, Heller moved westward to examine the volcanoes and silver mines near Toluca. When the United States invaded Mexico in 184647 conditions became chaotic, and the enterprising botanist was forced to flee to Yucatan. Heller lived in the port city of Campeche, but visited Merida, the ruins of Uxmal, and the remote southern area of the Champoton River. From there Heller, traveling by canoe, journeyed through southern Tabasco and northern Chiapas and finally returned to Vienna through Cuba and the United States bringing back thousands of samples of Mexican plants and animals.  Heller's account is one of the few documents we have from travelers who visited Mexico in this period, and it is particularly useful in describing conditions outside the capital of Mexico City. In 1853 Heller published his German-language account as Reisen in Mexiko, but the work has remained virtually unknown to English or Spanish readers. This edition now provides a complete, annotated, and highly readable translation.  

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Karl Bartolomeus Heller, Terry Rugeley, Terry Rugeley

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Forging Alabamas legacy: The definitive history of every blast furnace from pioneer charcoal fires to industrial giants. Alabama Blast Furnaces by Joseph H. Woodward II offers the only comprehensive history of every blast furnace constructed in Alabama between 1815 and 1940, tracing a vital chapter in the state's iron and steel legacy. Beginning with the pioneering Cedar Creek charcoal furnace in 1815, Woodward meticulously chronicles four distinct eras:            Pioneer Era (18151861): Early, locally focused furnaces that laid the foundation of Alabamas iron industry;           Civil War Era (18611865): Furnaces mobilized for the Confederate war effort, including Northern raids, labor shortages, and innovation under duress;           Reconstruction Era (18661879): Transition from stone-stack furnaces toward iron- and steel-shelled technology; and            Modern Era (18801940): The rise of large-scale coke-fired plants that propelled Alabama onto the national and international stage.  The heart of the book is a rich series of illustrated, furnace-by-furnace historiescapturing specifics on every site, including four that were built but never operated. With 50 detailed illustrations and rigorous documentation, this reissuepart of the Library of Alabama Classics seriesfeatures a new introduction by historian James R. Bennett, who situates Woodwards work in its historical context and underscores its lasting relevance. Originally compiled in 1940 by a member of the Woodward Iron Company family, the volume remains a seminal reference for scholars, students, and industrial history enthusiasts. Its thorough scope ensures every furnacewhether a modest pioneer operation or a towering industrial complexhas its story preserved. As one reviewer notes, this work covers furnaces that made Alabama internationally significant in the iron and steel industry, offering a level of detail unmatched in regional history.    

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Joseph H. Woodward II, II, Joseph H. Woodward, II, James R. Bennett, II

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The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism   The history of educational summer camps in American Reform Judaism. Reform Judaism is not the only religious community in America to make the summer camp experience a vital part of a faith community's effort to impart its values and beliefs to its adolescents, but perhaps no group relied more on summer camp as an adjunct to home and community for this purpose. Summer camp became an important part of Reform group identity, a bulwark against the attraction of assimilation into the greater society and mere nominal Judaism.   These essays, which commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the first Reform Jewish educational camp in the United States (Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute [OSRUI], in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin) cover a wide range of topics related to both the Reform Judaism movement and the development of the Reform Jewish camping system in the United States. Donald M. Splanskys chapter on Prayer at Reform Jewish Camps documents changes in prayer services that took place both at OSRUI and in the Reform movement in general; Michael Zeldins Making the Magic in Reform Jewish Summer Camps describes the educational philosophies employed at many camps and analyzes their effectiveness; and Jonathan D. Sarnas The Crucial Decade in Jewish

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Donald Splansky, Gerard W. Kaye, Michael Zeldin, Jonathan D. Sarna, Judah Cohen, Hillel Gamoran, Gary Phillip Zola, Michael M. Lorge

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Translated by Leon J. Weinberger with Dena Ordan  "This slender anonymous work, spanning 1389 to 1611, presents the priorities and concerns of a Jewish community straddling the late medieval and early modern periods. Ample footnotes and explanations provide the lay reader with sufficient background to understand the references to historical events and figures, to ideologies and to institutions. A comprehensive introduction presents the realities of Prague and Bohemia, as well as offering a helpful discussion of the chronicle and other contemporary Jewish accounts." Conservative Jewish Quarterly  "In about 1615 an anonymous Jew from Prague composed a short Hebrew chronicle to recount 'the expulsions, miracles, and other occurrences befalling [the Jews] in Prague and the other lands of our long exile.' Abraham David discovered the manuscript [and] added glosses, historical notes, and an introduction. . . . The chronicle, with its brief annual entries, is not a continuous narrative, but does give a feeling of immediacy, like a newspaper." Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry

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Abraham David, Leon J. Weinberger, Leon J. Weinberger, Dena Ordan

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In 1929, Ruth Farley, a fiercely independent woman, homesteads a tract of land in a beautiful canyon in the Southern California desert. Determined to live on her own terms and to be free of troubling human attachments, Ruth initially rejects the help of the miners and cowboys who are her neighbors and struggles to develop the homestead on her own. Gradually, however, Ruth learns that survival is a far more complicated and dangerous business, and the entrapments of love sweeter, and more binding, than she had ever imagined. Determined to take possession of her land, Ruth must first face the consequences of her own stubborness and sensuality, and of mindless and terrible violence, as well as a bitter fight to stay alive through a harrowing and isolated winter. Only then, her hard-won wisdom forged in unbearable grief and wrenching physical trials, can she truly become part of the land she loves so intensely. Ruth Farley is a character of exceptional complexitya liberated woman in a time when most women were tied to the home; a joyously sexual woman in a culture where most women merely "did their duty" for the men in their lives; a contradictory, self-centered, alienated woman who ultimately learns the true nature of love and community. Glory Springs, the site of Ruth's homestead, is a place of wondrous natural beauty; it is also, as we follow Ruth's tenuous search for peace and wisdom, a place that we recognize, that we, too, seek within our hearts. Small Rocks Rising is a novel of stunning richness and beauty, of memorable characters and unforgettable insight into a woman's secret and passionate soul.

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Woodland Potters and Archaeological Ceramics of the North Carolina Coast

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The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.  Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various periods and areas of the Atlantic coast, but their relationships and meanings have not been explicitly examined. In exploring these relationships for the North Carolina coast, this work examines the manner in which pottery traits cross-cut taxonomic types, tests the proposition that communities of practice existed at several scales, and questions the fundamental notion of ceramic types as ethnic markers.  Ethnoarchaeological case studies provide a means of assessing the mechanics of how social structure and gender roles may have affected the transmission of pottery-making techniques and how socio-cultural boundaries are reflected in the distribution of ceramic traditions. Another very valuable source of information about past practices is replication experimentation, which provides a means of understanding the practical techniques that lie behind the observable traits, thereby improving our understanding of how certain techniques may have influenced the transmission of traits from one potter to another. Both methods are employed in this study to interpret the meaning of pottery as an indicator of social activity on the North Carolina coast.

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The Development and Possibilities of Modern Air Power--Economic and Military

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This book is the basis for airpower doctrine in the US, and demonstrates  how forward looking Gen Mitchell was even though the technology for conducting air operations was in its infancy  when it was written.  It is essential reading for anyone concerned with airpower history or aerospace doctrine. William Lendrum "Billy" Mitchell (December 28, 1879  February 19, 1936) was an American Army general who is regarded as the father of the U.S. Air Force, and is one of the most famous and most controversial figures in the history of American airpower. Mitchell served in France during the First World War and, by the conflict's end, commanded all American air combat units in that country. After the war, he was appointed deputy director of the Air Service and began to advocate  increased investment in air power, claiming this would prove vital in future wars. He particularly stressed the ability of bombers to sink battleships and organized a series of dramatic bombing runs against stationary ships designed to test the idea that attracted wide notice from the public. He antagonized many  in both the Army and Navy with his arguments and criticism and, in 1925, was demoted to Colonel. Later that year, he was court-martialed for insubordination after accusing military chiefs of an "almost treasonable administration of the national defense." He resigned from the service shortly thereafter. Mitchell received many honors following his death, including a commission by the President as a Major General. He is also the only individual after whom a type of American military aircraft is named: the B-25 "Mitchell."

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"This splendid work is highly recommended." Choice Peyre's beautiful introduction to the Symbolist movement, which emerged in the late 19th century. A literary and artistic movement that sought to express the ineffable and the mysterious aspects of human experience, Symbolism originated in France and spread across Europe, influencing various forms of art, including poetry, painting, and music. Prominent figures in the Symbolist movement include poets like Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, and Paul Verlaine, as well as artists like Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon. The Symbolist movement had a profound impact on later artistic and literary movements, such as Modernism and Surrealism, shaping the way artists and writers approached the exploration of the human psyche and the mysteries of existence.

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This book focuses on the Colombian Violencia, the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history. There is also an array of appendixes, maps, and photographs.