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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The Battle over Peleliu
Islander, Japanese, and American Memories of War
University of Alabama Press
An ethnographic and historical account of the commercial, cultural, and military encroachment by Japan and the United States on the island nation of Palau
Slater Orchard
An Etymology
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An intensely personal, surreal imagining of how humans might survive industrialization
- Copyright year: 2019
Columbus, Georgia, 1865
The Last True Battle of the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
A thoroughly researched account of a memorable Civil War battle
Unmastering the Script
Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity
University of Alabama Press
Analyzes textbooks in the Dominican Republic for evidence of reproducing Haitian Otherness
- Copyright year: 2019
Archaeology below the Cliff
Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society
University of Alabama Press
First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation
- Copyright year: 2019
The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma
Archaeology from the WPA Era until Today
University of Alabama Press
Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites
- Copyright year: 2019
George Galphin's Intimate Empire
The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America
University of Alabama Press
A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South
- Copyright year: 2019
The Old Federal Road in Alabama
An Illustrated Guide
University of Alabama Press
A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's development
- Copyright year: 2019
Octopus Crowd
Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age
University of Alabama Press
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
- Copyright year: 2019
The Story of Alabama in Fourteen Foods
University of Alabama Press
Alabama’s history and culture revealed through fourteen iconic foods, dishes, and beverages
- Copyright year: 2019
To My Dearest Wife, Lide
Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855
By M. Patrick Sauer and David A. Ranzan
University of Alabama Press
A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy
- Copyright year: 2019
Charles Valentine Riley
Founder of Modern Entomology
University of Alabama Press
Riley propelled entomology from a collector’s parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age
- Copyright year: 2019
Beautiful War
Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
University of Alabama Press
A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?
Rhetorical Machines
Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics
University of Alabama Press
A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice
- Copyright year: 2019
Alabama Creates
200 Years of Art and Artists
University of Alabama Press
A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists
- Copyright year: 2019
Partisans, Guerillas, and Irregulars
Historical Archaeology of Asymmetric Warfare
Edited by Steven D. Smith and Clarence R. Geier
University of Alabama Press
Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology
- Copyright year: 2019
Early Alabama
An Illustrated Guide to the Formative Years, 1798–1826
By Mike Bunn
University of Alabama Press
An illustrated guidebook documenting the history and sites of the state’s origins
- Copyright year: 2019
Writing as Punishment in Schools, Courts, and Everyday Life
University of Alabama Press
A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment
- Copyright year: 2019
A Century of Controversy
Constitutional Reform in Alabama
Edited by H. Bailey Thomson
University of Alabama Press
A timely examination of Alabama’s severely criticized state constitution
- Copyright year: 2002
Send the Alabamians
World War I Fighters in the Rainbow Division
By Nimrod Thompson Frazer; Introduction by Edwin C. Bridges
University of Alabama Press
Send the Alabamians recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.
Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law
Edited by Hans Vilhelm Hansen, Fred J. Kauffeld, James B. Freeman, and Lilian Bermejo-Luque; Introduction by Hans Vilhelm Hansen
University of Alabama Press
An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof
- Copyright year: 2019
Wolfhounds and Polar Bears
The American Expeditionary Force in Siberia, 1918–1920
University of Alabama Press
Details the military aspects of the American Expeditionary Force's (AEF) deployment to Siberia following World War I to protect the Trans-Siberian Railroad
- Copyright year: 2016
The Stuff of Our Forebears
Willa Cather's Southern Heritage
University of Alabama Press
Connecting Cather's work to the southern literary tradition and the South of her youth
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
University of Alabama Press
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop
- Copyright year: 2017
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene
University of Alabama Press
A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers
Educating the Sons of Sugar
Jefferson College and the Creole Planter Class of South Louisiana
University of Alabama Press
A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite
Citizen Science in the Digital Age
Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
By James Wynn
University of Alabama Press
A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collection
A New Vision of Southern Jewish History
Studies in Institution Building, Leadership, Interaction, and Mobility
By Mark K. Bauman; Foreword by Ronald H. Bayor
University of Alabama Press
Essays from a prolific career that challenge and overturn traditional narratives of southern Jewish history
- Copyright year: 2019
Standing Watch
American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era
University of Alabama Press
The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War
- Copyright year: 2019
John Abbot and William Swainson
Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration
University of Alabama Press
An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist
- Copyright year: 2019
Alexander Hamilton's Public Administration
University of Alabama Press
Examines how Hamilton’s thoughts and experiences about public administration theory and practice have shaped the nation
- Copyright year: 2019
A Cuban City, Segregated
Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century
University of Alabama Press
A microhistory of racial segregation in Cienfuegos, a central Cuban port city
- Copyright year: 2019
Trial Films on Trial
Law, Justice, and Popular Culture
Edited by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, and Martha Merrill Umphrey; Introduction by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
University of Alabama Press
A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen
- Copyright year: 2019
Kurt Vonnegut Remembered
Edited by Jim O'Loughlin
University of Alabama Press
A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of Slaughterhouse-Five
- Copyright year: 2019
Planning the Urban Region
A Comparative Study of Policies and Organizations
By Peter Self
University of Alabama Press
Provides a comparative framework for analyzing issues of urban planning and government
- Copyright year: 1982
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America
Edited by Jill Annette Bergman; Introduction by Jill Annette Bergman
University of Alabama Press
A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and place
- Copyright year: 2017
Cather Among the Moderns
University of Alabama Press
A masterful study by a preeminent scholar that situates Cather as a visionary practitioner of literary modernism
- Copyright year: 2019
Back To Birmingham
Richard Arrington, Jr., and His Times
University of Alabama Press
An engaging story of a man who demonstrated faith in his city, his region, and its people
- Copyright year: 1989
Taxing Blackness
Free Afromexican Tribute in Bourbon New Spain
University of Alabama Press
A definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans
- Copyright year: 2019
Once into the Night
By Aurelie Sheehan; Foreword by Laird Hunt
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Stories that explore the potent and captivating boundaries between the real and the imaginary
- Copyright year: 2019
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