The University of Alabama Press
As the scholarly publishing arm of the university, The University of Alabama Press serves as an agent in the advancement of learning and the dissemination of scholarship. The Press applies the highest standards to all phases of publishing including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing.

UAP has won numerous awards for its publications over the years and has developed a solid list of titles in archaeology, public administration, and several areas of literature and history. With a staff of 17, the Press publishes between 80 to 85 books a year and has a backlist of approximately 1,800 titles in print.
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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

University of Alabama Press

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Disobedient Aesthetics

Surveillance, Bodies, Control

University of Alabama Press

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Southern Rivers

Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity

University of Alabama Press

Explores the Southeast’s imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction

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Fitter, Happier

The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century

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Dear Incomprehension

On American Speculative Fiction

University of Alabama Press

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction

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Unsettling Brazil

Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte

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Theatre History Studies 2023, Vol. 42

University of Alabama Press

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

University of Alabama Press

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century


 

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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 1

Prehistory through the Middle Woodland Period

University of Alabama Press

The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tannery Bay

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A volume which explores Black Joy, Queer Joy, and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen

  • Copyright year: 2024
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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three

University of Alabama Press

Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

University of Alabama Press

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own


 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Houseboat Veronica

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2


 

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Blessed Are the Activists

Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala

University of Alabama Press

Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tattered Kimonos in Japan

Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

University of Alabama Press

Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict

 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Uncanny Fidelity

Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

University of Alabama Press

How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean


 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Time in the Barrel

A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien

University of Alabama Press

A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island

Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

University of Alabama Press

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Aggression and Sufferings

Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South

University of Alabama Press

A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity

 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Case for Single Motherhood

Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations

University of Alabama Press

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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