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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Disorder in the Court
Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense
University of Alabama Press
The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense
Mammals of the Southeastern United States
By Troy L. Best and John L. Hunt
University of Alabama Press
First comprehensive account of the mammals of the entire southeastern US
- Copyright year: 2020
Kitchen Economics
Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy
University of Alabama Press
An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought
- Copyright year: 2020
Las Varas
Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes
By Howard Tsai
University of Alabama Press
Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establish the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries
- Copyright year: 2020
Civil Becomings
Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean
By Raúl Acosta
University of Alabama Press
An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organizations
- Copyright year: 2020
Zionism and the Melting Pot
Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics
University of Alabama Press
Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today
- Copyright year: 2020
Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy
Public Administration in the Information Age
University of Alabama Press
Investigates public administration’s increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices
From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions
Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama
University of Alabama Press
A new reading of Panama’s nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism
- Copyright year: 2020
Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years
By Ery Shin
University of Alabama Press
Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions
- Copyright year: 2020
Between the Sword and the Wall
The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
University of Alabama Press
Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- Copyright year: 2020
A War State All Over
Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause
University of Alabama Press
An in-depth political study of Alabama’s government during the Civil War
- Copyright year: 2020
The Spaces of Violence
By James Giles
University of Alabama Press
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels
The Blues Muse
Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry
University of Alabama Press
A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists
- Copyright year: 2018
American Poetry as Transactional Art
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art
- Copyright year: 2020
Architects of Memory
Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
University of Alabama Press
Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency
- Copyright year: 2020
Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Edited by Gary Scharnhorst
University of Alabama Press
The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection
- Copyright year: 2006
Engineering Security
The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861
University of Alabama Press
Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period
Chesnutt and Realism
A Study of the Novels
By Ryan Simmons
University of Alabama Press
Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism
Portraits of Remembrance
Painting, Memory, and the First World War
University of Alabama Press
Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict
- Copyright year: 2020
Cookery
Food Rhetorics and Social Production
University of Alabama Press
The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries
- Copyright year: 2020
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