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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Illusion Is More Precise than Precision

The Poetry of Marianne Moore

University of Alabama Press

Erickson examines the work of Marianne Moore in order to provide some consistently successful strategies for understanding her poetry

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Getting Out of the Mud

The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928

University of Alabama Press

Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobiles

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Great Beyond

Art in the Age of Annihilation

University of Alabama Press

Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality—forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador

University of Alabama Press

The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience

 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Crayfishes of Alabama

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive assessment of the 99 known species of crayfishes inhabiting the state of Alabama

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones

Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"

University of Alabama Press

A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Distracted by Alabama

Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore

University of Alabama Press

 Bestselling reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama by an Alabama writers and scholar
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Their Determination to Remain

A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina

University of Alabama Press

The remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 29

Theatre and Race

Edited by Andrew Gibb
University of Alabama Press

Essays whose composition and editing were undertaken almost entirely within the transformed cultural and professional landscape of 2020
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Wreading

A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?

University of Alabama Press

A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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