Alabama Rising: The Erectolite Affair

Alabama Rising: The Erectolite Affair

Author: B. J. Gillum

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781794627185

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The small town of Profit, Alabama, is the sort of place where everyone knows everything about everyone else ... or do they?The combination of alcohol, sex, and a new illicit drug called erectolite set against the roiling backdrop of a gathering hurricane force storm and the rising waters of the Alabama River, sets the stage for secrets to be revealed and lives to be irrevocably afftected.


Arbitrating for Peace

Arbitrating for Peace

Author: Joel Dahlquist

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2016-09-04

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9041159630

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Although short of attaining the ideal of a ‘substitute for war’, arbitration has largely succeeded in peacefully resolving international disputes. Beyond that, arbitral commitments and arbitral processes have deepened civilized and cooperative international relations, promoted the development of international law and international institutions, and facilitated the well-being of mankind in multiple important ways. Particulars of that proposition are set forth in this one-of-a-kind book. Each of the fourteen chapters is devoted to one landmark international arbitration case, primarily state-to-state but also includes commercial disputes with geopolitical dimensions. Each chapter is written by a practitioner and/or academic of high international standing. The project was initiated by the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, which celebrates its centennial in 2017. By focusing on landmark cases, the book contributes to a continued dynamic development of dispute resolution in complicated or sensitive geopolitical contexts, and demonstrates how arbitration has and can continue to play an important role for international relations. Practitioners, political decision makers, and academics in any part of the world with an interest in international arbitration and international law or political history and policy on an international level will find it not only deeply informative but also immensely useful.


Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Author: Walter Lynwood Fleming

Publisher: New York : Smith

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 876

ISBN-13:

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Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal conditions of Alabama during the war. Emphasizes the social and economic problems in the general situation, as well as the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period.


One War at a Time

One War at a Time

Author: Dean B. Mahin

Publisher: Potomac Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Mahin takes a look at Lincoln's role in foreign relations, and argues that he used the threat of war to prevent European nations from recognizing Confederate independence. Specific attention is given to the British relations with the Union and Confederacy, and to the reactions of both the U.S.A. and


Opening the Doors

Opening the Doors

Author: B. J. Hollars

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0817317929

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Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of Alabama’s desegregation, in Opening the Doors B. J. Hollars focuses on Tuscaloosa’s purposeful divide between “town” and “gown,” providing a new contextual framework for this landmark period in civil rights history. The image of George Wallace’s stand in the schoolhouse door has long burned in American consciousness; however, just as interesting are the circumstances that led him there in the first place, a process that proved successful due to the concerted efforts of dedicated student leaders, a progressive university president, a steadfast administration, and secret negotiations between the U.S. Justice Department, the White House, and Alabama’s stubborn governor. In the months directly following Governor Wallace’s infamous stand, Tuscaloosa became home to a leader of a very different kind: twenty-eight-year-old African American reverend T. Y. Rogers, an up-and-comer in the civil rights movement, as well as the protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. After taking a post at Tuscaloosa’s First African Baptist Church, Rogers began laying the groundwork for the city’s own civil rights movement. In the summer of 1964, the struggle for equality in Tuscaloosa resulted in the integration of the city’s public facilities, a march on the county courthouse, a bloody battle between police and protesters, confrontations with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a bus boycott, and the near-accidental-lynching of movie star Jack Palance. Relying heavily on new firsthand accounts and personal interviews, newspapers, previously classified documents, and archival research, Hollars’s in-depth reporting reveals the courage and conviction of a town, its university, and the people who call it home.


Lincoln's Spymaster

Lincoln's Spymaster

Author: David Hepburn Milton

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0811751619

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Details the overseas diplomatic and intelligence contest between Union and Confederate governments Documents the historically neglected Thomas Haines Dudley and his European network of agents Explores the actions that forced neutrality between England and the Union The American Civil War conjures images of bloody battlefields in the eastern United States. Few are aware of the equally important diplomatic and intelligence contest between the North and South in Europe. While the Confederacy eagerly sought the approval of Great Britain as a strategic ally, the Union utilized diplomacy and espionage to avert both the construction of a Confederate navy and the threat of war with England.