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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Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
University of Alabama Press
Continuing Bonds with the Dead explores the redemptive literary achievements of five nineteenth-century American authors who lost a son or daughter. In it, Harold K. Bush illuminates America’s evolving cultural attitudes about death and grief.
- Copyright year: 2016
Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics
University of Alabama Press
This study of physical and sexual child abuse in the Deep South was designed to determine the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the state of Alabama, to identify the characteristics of confirmed child abuse, and to test the hypothesis that community size would contribute to a unique picture of the surveillance, reporting, and caseworker determination of abuse.
- Copyright year: 1988
After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Edited by Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller
University of Alabama Press
Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading
- Copyright year: 1985
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
University of Alabama Press
An audacious, interdisciplinary study that combines the burgeoning fields of digital aesthetics and eco-criticism
- Copyright year: 2016
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age
University of Alabama Press
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age posits a framework for the scholarly community, policy makers, and lay readers for understanding the legal and military aspects of drone warfare.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
Edited by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
University of Alabama Press
The 2015 volume of Theatre History Studies presents a collection of five critical essays examining the intersection of theatre studies and historiography as well as twenty-five book reviews highlighting recent scholarship in this thriving field.
- Copyright year: 2015
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2015
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
University of Alabama Press
Fabricating the People boldly proposes post-representational governance that reframes the practice of modern democracy and reinvents the role of public administration.
- Copyright year: 2012
Experience
Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
University of Alabama Press
Norman Fischer’s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Story They Told Us of Light
Poems
By Rodney Jones
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1980
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
University of Alabama Press
Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis
- Copyright year: 2015
Modern Organization
By Victor A. Thompson; Introduction by Victor A. Thompson
University of Alabama Press
In Modern Organization, Victor A. Thompson tackles arbitrary power structures and their hold over more specialized but less appreciated workers. The book is ultimately interested in righting dynamics between power and knowledge in the modern working world.
- Copyright year: 1961
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
University of Alabama Press
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system
- Copyright year: 2015
St. Elmo
Or, Saved at Last
By Augusta Jane Evans; Introduction by Diane Roberts
University of Alabama Press
The top-selling novel by prolific Southern writer Augusta J. Evans, St. Elmo was more widely read in its day than Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel traces the relationship between a charming and charismatic lothario, St. Elmo, and the beautiful and chaste Edna Earl.
- Copyright year: 1992
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry
Edited by John P. Hermann and John J. Burke Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.
- Copyright year: 1981
In Service to American Pharmacy
The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the “Father of American Pharmacy,” and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter’s professional commitment to the field.
Haunted Presence
The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction explores the relationship between the Gothic mode of literature and modern studies in the psychology of religious experience, arguing in each case that the central motif is the numinous: the sense of wonder, mystery, and fascination that the human being historically experiences in encounters with the Divine.
- Copyright year: 1987
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
From Creation to Betrayal
University of Alabama Press
Explores how the Creek War of 1813–1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the United States’ Cherokee allies
- Copyright year: 2015
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
University of Alabama Press
The essays in The Motherhood Business examine how consumer culture both constrains and empowers contemporary motherhood. The collection demonstrates that the logic of consumerism and entrepreneurship has redefined both the experience of mothering and the marketplace.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Politics of Trust
Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the extraordinary political career of Reubin Askew, governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979, under whose unorthodox leadership Florida undertook numerous successful reform initiatives
- Copyright year: 2015
The Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
University of Alabama Press
The Everest Effect is an accessibly written cultural history of how nature, technology, and culture have worked together to turn Mount Everest into a powerful and ubiquitous physical measure of Western values.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Astonishment Tapes
Talks on Poetry and Autobiography with Robin Blaser and Friends
By Robin Blaser; Edited by Miriam Nichols
University of Alabama Press
The edited transcript of revealing autobiographical audiotapes recorded by the groundbreaking poet Robin Blaser
- Copyright year: 2015
William March
An Annotated Checklist
University of Alabama Press
William March: An Annotated Checklist is the definitive resource for readers and scholars of southern writer William March, author of the best-selling Company K, The Bad Seed, and the Pearl County series.
- Copyright year: 1988
Turtles of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Turtles of Alabama pulls together new discoveries, research, and taxonomic changes that have occurred in herpetology within the state of Alabama since the 1975 publication of the now-classic volume Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama by Robert H. Mount.
- Copyright year: 2015
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 23
Theatre and Youth
Edited by David S. Thompson
University of Alabama Press
The essays in volume 23 of Theatre Symposium offer a rich exploration of depictions of youth in works of theatre as well as the role youth play in the creation and performance of drama.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
- Copyright year: 2015
Plague Among the Magnolias
The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi
University of Alabama Press
Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
- Copyright year: 2009
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
By Eva M. McMahan; Foreword by Ronald J. Grele
University of Alabama Press
Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.
Bound to Respect
Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861
University of Alabama Press
Challenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipation
- Copyright year: 2015
Silence & Song
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Award-winning writer Melanie Rae Thon’s Silence & Song is a diptych, two lyric fictions hinged by a short prose poem. Inspired and informed by biology, physics, music, history, intimate violence, and miraculous resilience, the three pieces move from mourning to song.
- Copyright year: 2015
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, Jessica Lee Richardson’s debut collection of short fiction, was the tenth winner of the Fiction Collective Two (FC2) Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. The book invites readers on a bodily journey through a darkly funny, buoyantly untethered storyscape.
- Copyright year: 2015
Education for Liberation
The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
By Joe M. Richardson and Maxine D. Jones
University of Alabama Press
Education for Liberation completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War II era.
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
University of Alabama Press
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
By Paul A. Shapiro; Translated by Angela Jianu
University of Alabama Press
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.
- Copyright year: 2015
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
University of Alabama Press
A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.
Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900–1975
University of Alabama Press
This well-written volume explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the 20th century.
- Copyright year: 1995
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
University of Alabama Press
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.
- Copyright year: 2015
Avenues of Faith
Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929
University of Alabama Press
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
Captain Billy's Troopers
A Writer's Life
By William Cobb
University of Alabama Press
Opens a candid window into the life of a writer and teacher who overcame years of addiction and serious health problems as his voice, artistic vision, and sense of self evolved and matured
- Copyright year: 2015
The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism
University of Alabama Press
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2015
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