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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Patton's Shadow

The Making of a Hero in Modern Memory

University of Alabama Press

General George S. Patton’s legendary image was carefully crafted during World War II and continues to shape our understanding of American history and culture today. Historian Nathan C. Jones explores the creation of the Patton legend and its enduring legacy in Patton’s Shadow.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Oligarchy in America

Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few

University of Alabama Press

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Way to Hell

Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times

University of Alabama Press

An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Way to Hell

Machiavelli for Catastrophic Times

University of Alabama Press

An incisive and erudite survey of Machiavelli, the catastrophes of his times and ours, and his counsel for responding to an era of constant crises

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Castle

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A fictional return to the unsettling world of Franz Kafka’s iconic unfinished novel, The Castle

  • Copyright year: 2024
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An Apprehension of Splendor

A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family

University of Alabama Press

A unique collection of Fitzgerald family photographs, many never before published, hand selected by a curator of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

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The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

University of Alabama Press

The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Opulent Nosh

A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites

University of Alabama Press

Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing

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City of Hope, City of Rage

Miami, 1968–1994

University of Alabama Press

Examines Miami’s turbulent transformation from a segregated vacation destination to a global, multicultural metropolis

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Story Quilts of Yvonne Wells

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself

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Southern Footprints

Exploring Gulf Coast Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

A “greatest hits” of archaeological research that has transformed knowledge of human history

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Double-Check for Sleeping Children

Stories

By Kirstin Allio; Foreword by Matt Bell
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

The winner of the FC2 Catherine L. Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Now Is the Time to Collect

Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896

University of Alabama Press

The rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Now Is the Time to Collect

Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896

University of Alabama Press

The rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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A Fortified Sea

The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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A Fortified Sea

The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1

The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543

University of Alabama Press

“For those interested in De Soto and his expedition, these volumes are an absolute necessity.” —The Hispanic American Historical Review

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Escaping Hitler

A Jewish Haven in Chile

University of Alabama Press

 

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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Some Nightmares Are Real

The Haunting Truth Behind Alabama’s Supernatural Tales

By Kelly Kazek; Illustrated by Sarah Cotton
University of Alabama Press

Southern writer and folklorist Kelly Kazek’s collection of eerie and enigmatic Alabama ghost stories

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Mobile and Havana

Sisters across the Gulf

University of Alabama Press

A sumptuously illustrated and vivid account of the deep ties that bridge the histories and cultures of two colorful and storied port cities
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894

University of Alabama Press

The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 31

Theatre and the Popular

Edited by Chase Bringardner; Introduction by Chase Bringardner
University of Alabama Press

A new issue of the longstanding theatre journal, documenting conversations that traverse disciplinary boundaries

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Fear and the First Amendment

Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court

University of Alabama Press

A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities

Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands

University of Alabama Press

Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities

Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands

University of Alabama Press

Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Imagining Progress

Science, Faith, and Child Mortality in America

University of Alabama Press

Explores the intellectual history of Americans’ divergent assumptions about God, nature, and science
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Mosquito Warrior

Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas

University of Alabama Press

A timely biography of General William C. Gorgas, the US Army doctor whose pioneering fight against infectious disease around the world set the stage for the American Century
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Threshold

How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out

University of Alabama Press

An urgent and cautionary examination of the totalizing effect of smart home technology on the lives of those who live in them—and those who don’t
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Alabama Railroads

University of Alabama Press

The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system

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Pentecostalism in Urban Oaxaca

Healing Patriarchy, Marriage, and Mexico

University of Alabama Press

An ethnography focusing on a Pentecostal church community and their pursuit of healing marriages and prosperity

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 2

The Late Woodland Period through Recent History

University of Alabama Press

Synthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola–lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia, from 1,300 years ago to recent times

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Too Far on a Whim

The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy

University of Alabama Press

Argues that the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay

Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast

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Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay

Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast

University of Alabama Press

Offers case studies of colonoware in Indigenous, enslaved, and European contexts in the Southeast

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Entitled Opinions

Doxa after Digitality

University of Alabama Press

A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Law

A Critical Reader

University of Alabama Press

Pairs passages from works of classical rhetoric with contemporary legal rulings to highlight and analyze their deep and abiding connections in matters of persuasion

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

University of Alabama Press

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Disobedient Aesthetics

Surveillance, Bodies, Control

University of Alabama Press

Examines emergent forms of creative civil disobedience that have arisen in response to digital tools of bodily surveillance and control

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Southern Rivers

Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity

University of Alabama Press

Explores the Southeast’s imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinction

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Fitter, Happier

The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric

University of Alabama Press

Examines the complexity of public language about cancer, with a particular focus on the historical evolution of US cancer rhetorics during the twentieth century

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