Although the book is a manual for the hunter, with characteristic humor and a certain disdain, Hooper gives a full picture of the gentlemanly sport of hunting – clearly distinct from hunting for food – in all aspects including hunter, weaponry, and sporting dogs.

The emphasis in The Two Worlds of William March is on the literary career, and we get a fairly full picture of a hardworking, oversensitive, compassionate bachelor, who suffered a tragic breakdown late in life . . . [and] whose best long works, Company K and The Looking-Glass, as well as March himself are almost forgotten. . . . Simmonds’s comprehensive, scholarly, and sympathetic study may redress this unwarranted neglect.” —CHOICE

 The Collected Short Stories of William March

This book is the principal authority for the general treatment of the history of coal, and of iron and steel, in Alabama.

In 1881, Joseph Camp, an elderly and self-trained Methodist minister from Talladega County, Alabama, was brought by his family to Bryce Hospital, an insane asylum in Tuscaloosa, where he remained for over five months. This book is an account of his stay and provides a rare glimpse of 19th century mental health care from a patient's viewpoint.

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.

An overview of the early political history of Colombia through an examination of the Liberal party from 1863 to 1899, its role in the Colombian poltical system, and its evolution during that time.

Classic study of the history of post-slave societies