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Patterson for Alabama
University of Alabama Press 2013; US$ 29.95John Patterson, Alabama governor from 1959 to 1963, was thrust into the Alabama political arena after the brutal murder of his father, attorney general Albert Patterson in 1954. Allowed by the Democratic Party to take his father’s place and to complete the elder’s goal of cleaning up corruption in his hometown Phenix City, Patterson made... more...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 119.00The Montgomery Bus Boycott: A History and Reference Guide offers a comprehensive account of a critical turning point in American history. It offers a richly detailed chronological trip through post-World War II Southern society to the early 1960s, then focuses on the day-to-day frustrations, challenges, and victories of the people behind the protest... more...
Stride Toward Freedom
Beacon Press 2010; US$ 14.00The classic story of nonviolent resistance in America?the Montgomery bus boycott?written by Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolent resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of 50,000 Negroes... more...
Power and Violence in the Colonial City
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 35.00This book examines the characteristics of political power in the cities of the colonial Spanish Empire between the 1740s and 1780s. more...
A Letter from Frank
Dundurn 2011; US$ 12.99A Letter from Frank is the story of Frank, a German from Czechoslovakia who served as a German paratrooper in the Second World War, and Russ, a small-town Canadian kid who was a tank commander in a Canadian armoured division. On the last day of the war, Frank and Russ fought each other. In the days after, they became friends. more...
Daybreak of Freedom
The University of North Carolina Press 1997; US$ 33.95The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom , Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking... more...
Reborn in America
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 30.00The history of the Vine and Olive Colony in Demopolis, Alabama, has long been clouded by romantic myths. The notion that it was a doomed attempt by Napoleonic exiles in America to plant a wine- and olive-growing community in Alabama based on the ideals of the French Revolution, has long been bolstered by the images that have been proliferated in the... more...
Reflections of the 1965 Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 169.95Dr. Jans-Thomas revisits an important location in the Civil Rights movement and walks through various places along the march from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama. Her stories are largely anecdotal, but the overall portrait she paints of the towns are vivid because she outlines how the culture has changed since the 1950s and 60s. The portrayal... more...
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
University of Alabama Press 2008; US$ 24.95Social and political history of the modern South. This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. History... more...
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 50.00The ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America’s westward expansion and the French Revolution. Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in... more...









