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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What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Preface by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Introduction by C. S. Giscombe
University of Alabama Press
What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Edited by Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
University of Alabama Press
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.
- Copyright year: 2015
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
University of Alabama Press
Inside the Teaching Machine argues that the U.S. public research university has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments often ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy.
- Copyright year: 2008
If It Takes All Summer
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
By Dan R. Warren; Foreword by Morris Dees
University of Alabama Press
An insider’s record of the St. Augustine Civil Rights drama.
- Copyright year: 2008
Edith Wharton in Context
Essays on Intertextuality
University of Alabama Press
These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton’s textual relationships with authors whom she knew well—especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America
An Interpretive Guide
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period
- Copyright year: 2015
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
By Frye Gaillard; Foreword by Juan Williams
University of Alabama Press
Alabama’s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama’s preserved civil rights sites and monuments
- Copyright year: 2009
Transforming the Dead
Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest
University of Alabama Press
The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals.
- Copyright year: 2015
Show Us How You Do It
Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968
University of Alabama Press
A major figure in southern black restorationist church history
- Copyright year: 2008
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War
Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman
University of Alabama Press
Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon
- Copyright year: 2015
Raphael Semmes
The Philosophical Mariner
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1997
Between the Eagle and the Sun
Traces of Japan
By Ihab Hassan
University of Alabama Press
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
University of Alabama Press
In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.
- Copyright year: 2015
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.
- Copyright year: 2015
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
Lincoln’s Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron’s quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.
- Copyright year: 2014
Immersive Words
Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893
University of Alabama Press
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity.
- Copyright year: 2015
Wings of Gold
An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea
Edited by Wesley Phillips Newton and Robert R. Rea
University of Alabama Press
Wings of Gold presents the personal account of the experiences and reactions of an individual cadet preparing for war in the naval aviation training program at its peak during World War II.
- Copyright year: 1987
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
University of Alabama Press
Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of the complex and violent history of Mexico’s easternmost Gulf Coast region that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics from 1855 to 1876.
- Copyright year: 2015
Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
University of Alabama Press
A highly innovative study in which James B. Stoltman uses petrography to reveal previously undetectable evidence of cultural interaction among Hopewell societies of the Ohio Valley region and the contemporary peoples of the Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Seed
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’, as well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value.
- Copyright year: 2015
O'Hearn
By Greg Mulcahy
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
O’Hearn is the second novel by highly praised writer Greg Mulcahy, author of Out of Work, Constellation, and Carbine. Timely and mordantly sardonic, O’Hearn tells the story of the disintegration of a man’s life refracted through the prism of his office life.
- Copyright year: 2015
Hospice
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Hospice is the debut novel of Gregory Howard. In it, he follows Lucy, a young woman whose series of jobs opens windows into the strange lives of others and in so doing brings her back to her own secrets.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Archaeology of Events
Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast
Edited by Zackary I. Gilmore and Jason M. O'Donoughue
University of Alabama Press
The first work to apply an events-based approach to the analysis of pivotal developments in the pre-Columbian Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Edited by Julie Carr and Jeffrey C. Robinson
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry
- Copyright year: 2015
Collards
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
By Edward H. Davis and John T. Morgan
University of Alabama Press
The definitive survey of collards, an iconic southern food
- Copyright year: 2015
Cultural Forests of the Amazon
A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
By William Balée; Preface by William Balée
University of Alabama Press
Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world.
- Copyright year: 2013
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood"
University of Alabama Press
Truman Capote and the Legacy of 'In Cold Blood' is the anatomy of the origins of an American literary landmark and its legacy.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Transfiguring Sword
The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union
University of Alabama Press
Provides a new understanding of the recurrent rhetorical need to employ conservative rhetoric in support of a radical cause
New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South
Historical and Contemporary Approaches
Edited by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies; Introduction by Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies
University of Alabama Press
An outgrowth of the LAVIS III symposium (2004), New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches comprises forty-five original essays (revised and reviewed) on a range of topics regarding the languages and dialects of the American South.
- Copyright year: 2015
Jewish Continuity in America
Creative Survival in a Free Society
University of Alabama Press
Jewish Continuity in America presents an overview of a life's work by a preeminent scholar and brings new insight to the challenge of American Jewish continuity.
Diamonds in the Rough
A History of Alabama's Cahaba Coal Field
University of Alabama Press
Diamonds in the Rough reconstructs the historical moment that defined the Cahaba Coal Field, a mineral-rich area that stretches across sixty-seven miles and four counties of central Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Tallons
University of Alabama Press
The Tallons is the second book in William March’s “Pearl County” series. In it, the arrival of Myrtle Bickerstaff destroys the tranquil lives of the Tallon brothers, Jim and Andrew.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Looking-Glass
University of Alabama Press
The last novel in William March’s “Pearl County” series, The Looking-Glass is considered March’s masterpiece and most enduring work of fiction.
- Copyright year: 1943
The House by the Side of the Road
The Selma Civil Rights Movement
University of Alabama Press
This book is a firsthand account of the behind-the-scenes activity of King and his lieutenants—a mixture of stress, tension, dedication, and the personal interaction at the movement’s heart—told by Richie Jean Jackson, who carefully created a safe haven for the civil rights leaders and dealt with the innumerable demands of living in the eye of events that would forever change America.
Come in at the Door
University of Alabama Press
His second novel, Come In at the Door is the first in William March’s “Pearl County” series of novels and short stories inspired by his childhood in the Mobile, Alabama, area.
- Copyright year: 1934
Southern Sanctuary
A Naturalist's Walk through the Seasons
By Marian Moore Lewis; By (photographer) Marian Moore Lewis
University of Alabama Press
A year-long exploration of a wildlife preserve near Huntsville, Alabama, Southern Sanctuary offers a richly illustrated and handsome introduction to the scenic beauty and biodiversity of plants and animals native to the Southern Appalachians.
- Copyright year: 2015
American Literary Minimalism
University of Alabama Press
Fills a need for a comprehensive study of this twentieth-century literary movement
- Copyright year: 2015
Sherman's Mississippi Campaign
University of Alabama Press
Sherman's Mississippi Campaign details Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's march across the Southeast.
- Copyright year: 2006
Here and There in Mexico
The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend
By Mary Ashley Townsend; Edited by Ralph Lee Woodward
University of Alabama Press
Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora during the last two decades of the 19th century. She collected her impressions of many aspects of life in that country—flora, fauna, architecture, people at work and play, fashion, society, food—and wrote about them during a time when few women engaged in solo travel, much less the pursuit of travel writing. Here and There in Mexico will make new contribution to the field of Latin American studies and to the travel literature genre, both as a primary source for historians and as a well-written account of a southern woman’s impressions of Mexico during a crucial period in that country’s development.
Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities
University of Alabama Press
“Tender Is the Night” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Sentimental Identities is a major examination of Fitzgerald's 1934 masterpiece as the clearest exemplar of Fitzgerald’s sentimentalism, a mode that shaped his distinctive blend of romance and realism throughout his career.
- Copyright year: 2015
Tenahaha and the Wari State
A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley
Edited by Justin Jennings and Willy Yépez Álvarez
University of Alabama Press
Tenahaha and the Wari State presents new findings and interpretations that challenge existing theories of Wari state dominance during the Middle Horizon period (A.D. 600–1000) in Peru.
- Copyright year: 2015
Reading Network Fiction
University of Alabama Press
David Ciccoricco establishes the category of "network fiction" as distinguishable from other forms of hypertext and cybertext: network fictions are narrative texts in digitally networked environments that make use of hypertext technology in order to create emergent and recombinant narratives.
- Copyright year: 2007
Other Letters to Milena / Otras cartas a Milena
University of Alabama Press
Other Letters to Milena/Otras cartas a Milena offers a parallel translation of a mixed-genre work by acclaimed Cuban writer Reina María Rodríguez in which poetry merges into creative nonfiction, culminating in a series of essays.
- Copyright year: 2014
Henry Darwin Rogers, 1808–1866
American Geologist
University of Alabama Press
Henry Darwin Rogers was one of the first professional geologists in the United States. He directed two of the earliest state geological surveys--New Jersey and Pennsylvania--in the mid-1830s. His major interest was Pennsylvania, with its Appalachian Mountains, which Rogers saw as great folds of sedimentary rock. He belived that an interpretation of these folds would lead to an understanding of the dynamic processes that had shaped the earth. From Rogers' efforts to explain these Pennsylvania folds came the first uniquely American theory of mountain elevation, a theory that Rogers personally considered his most significant achievement.
Community over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
University of Alabama Press
As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication, thus countering the current theoretical climate of pessimistic cynicism toward the very possibility of ethics.
Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33
Theatres of War
Edited by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix; Introduction by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest—theatre and war.
- Copyright year: 2014
Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric
University of Alabama Press
Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric posits that Stein was not only an influential literary modernist, but also one of the twentieth century’s preeminent rhetoricians.
- Copyright year: 2014
Winds of Will
Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought
University of Alabama Press
An innovative exploration of Emily Dickinson's poetry as a meditation on democratic values.
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Edited by Thomas M. Leonard
University of Alabama Press
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903 is a collection of essays that provide an in-depth analysis of the developing relationship between the Americas during the critical period from the Mexican War to the Panama Canal treaty of 1903.
- Copyright year: 1999
Recursive Desire
Rereading Epic Tradition
University of Alabama Press
Recursive Desire rereads the epic tradition and specific epic poems in ways that challenge traditional notions of the genre and highlights its vital, shifting, polyvocal array (and disarray) of textual forces.
- Copyright year: 1997
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