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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Conceiving Normalcy

Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility

University of Alabama Press

This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible

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American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard

University of Alabama Press

Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods

 

  • Copyright year: 2003
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After War Times

An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida

University of Alabama Press

Twenty-three autobiographical articles by noted African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, comprising a late-life memoir of his childhood in Reconstruction-era Florida

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Alabama Governors

A Political History of the State

University of Alabama Press

An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Our Southern Zion

A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990

University of Alabama Press

An exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America

  • Copyright year: 1996
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Storm of Words

Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era

University of Alabama Press

A study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom

Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Communities along the Alabama River

University of Alabama Press

Reconstructing Tascalusa’s Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Separate Spheres No More

Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

Edited by Monika Elbert
University of Alabama Press

Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature

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Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980

The First Twenty Days

University of Alabama Press

Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 recounts first-hand the drama and political intrigue that erupted when more than thirty thousand Cuban refugees fled to Florida and the stories of the first responders who aided them. 

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze

Regarding Subjectivity

University of Alabama Press

An exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and unique vision of the world

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The Emperor Redressed

Critiquing Critical Theory

Edited by Dwight Eddins; Introduction by Dwight Eddins
University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1995
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Tell the World You're a Wildflower

Stories

University of Alabama Press

In Tell the World You’re a Wildflower, Jennifer Horne luminously brings to life the criss-crossing experiences of Southern women in twenty-four contemporary short stories.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Simon Baruch

Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921

University of Alabama Press

Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century

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Knowing the Suffering of Others

Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings

Edited by Austin Sarat; Introduction by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press

In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation

American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

University of Alabama Press

Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
 

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Beside the Troubled Waters

A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town

University of Alabama Press

A memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era

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The Woman I Am

Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906–2006

University of Alabama Press

Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel

University of Alabama Press

Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel,  Stephen E. Tabachnick  takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of  Jewish identity and belief.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Sacrifice and Survival

Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South

University of Alabama Press

Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Miles of Stare

Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America

University of Alabama Press

Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Welcome the Hour of Conflict

William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama

University of Alabama Press

Vivid and lively letters from a young Confederate in Lee’s Army

  • Copyright year: 2007
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The Voyage of the CSS Shenandoah

A Memorable Cruise

University of Alabama Press

The only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the globe

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Geological Sciences in the Antebellum South

Edited by James X. Corgan
University of Alabama Press

Nine essays that provide detailed information about the early geological exploration of the southeastern United States

  • Copyright year: 1982
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The Good Men Who Won the War

Army of the Cumberland Veterans and Emancipation Memory

University of Alabama Press

Examines how Union veterans of the Army of the Cumberland employed the extinction of slavery in the trans-Appalachian South in their memory of the Civil War
 

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In Defense of Politics in Public Administration

A Value Pluralist Perspective

University of Alabama Press

A spirited declaration of principles and a timely contribution to a dialogue that is redefining public administration, both in theory and in practice

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Reclaiming Queer

Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance

University of Alabama Press

An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Rhetorical Secrets

Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America

University of Alabama Press

Gay male identity as a product of rhetoric and public discourse in modern America.

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Abductive Reasoning

University of Alabama Press

A study of the role of abductive inference in everyday argumentation and legal evidence

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Voices in the Wilderness

Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original perspective on the current debate over public discourse.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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From Conciliation to Conquest

The Sack of Athens and the Court-Martial of Colonel John B. Turchin

University of Alabama Press

In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for "outrages" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama

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Mammals of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

Beautifully designed and sturdily bound for rugged field use, Mammals of Alabama is the first and only exhaustive guidebook to Alabama’s diverse and fascinating mammalian fauna

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women

Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783

University of Alabama Press

In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The English Physician

University of Alabama Press

The first medical book published in the American colonies

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Patterson for Alabama

The Life and Career of John Patterson

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2013
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Mule South to Tractor South

Mules, Machines, and the Transformation of the Cotton South

University of Alabama Press

The adoption of the mule as the major agricultural resource in the American South and its later displacement by the mechanical tractor
 

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Hope's Promise

Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry

University of Alabama Press

A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Debt, Investment, Slaves

Credit Relations in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, 1825-1885

University of Alabama Press

Richard Kilbourne has produced a comprehensive study of the credit system in one Louisiana parish in the antebellum and postbellum periods of the Civil War. East Feliciana Parish was important in terms of both population and the large number of slaves. This book’s primary concern is the role of slave property in collateralizing credit relationships and planter perceptions regarding slaves as financial assets.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Cattle in the Cotton Fields

A History of Cattle Raising in Alabama

University of Alabama Press

This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry within Alabama from colonial times to the present within the broader contexts of southern and American agricultural history

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A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks

Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil

University of Alabama Press

Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism’s processes through the lens of social networks
 

  • Copyright year: 2013
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A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida

University of Alabama Press

Braund presents the only annotated edition of Bernard Romans's rare and valuable 18th-century account of his observations in the southeastern United States.

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Once Human

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A stunning new collection of stories by a master fictionist, Once Human shows the ways to go beyond standard maps of simple understanding

  • Copyright year: 2014
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History of the University of Alabama

Volume One, 1818-1902

University of Alabama Press

A history of the University of Alabama from 1818 to 1902.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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Heart of Palms

My Peace Corps Years in Tranquilla

University of Alabama Press

Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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List

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Vignettes of a middle-class American family told through lists, each reflecting their obsessions, their complaints, their desires, and their humanity.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Hum

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A new collection of stories by bestselling author Michelle Richmond, Hum presents a cautionary political fable, a celebration of the complexities of marriage, and a meditation on modern-day alienation.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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Theories of Forgetting

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Theories of Forgetting is concerned with how words matter, the materiality of the page, and how a literary work might react against mass reproduction and textual disembodiment in the digital age.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Island Called Paradise

Cuba in History, Literature, and the Arts

University of Alabama Press

A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler’s The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.

  • Copyright year: 2014
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The Border Crossed Us

Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity

University of Alabama Press

Explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Reading the Difficulties

Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

University of Alabama Press

The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Quince Duncan

Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity

University of Alabama Press

Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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