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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Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment
- Copyright year: 2018
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
By P. Allen Krause; Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Stephen Krause; Introduction by P. Allen Krause and Mark K. Bauman
University of Alabama Press
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36
Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.
- Copyright year: 2017
Martin Buber's Formative Years
From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909
University of Alabama Press
An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber’s early career.
- Copyright year: 1995
Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton
University of Alabama Press
An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction
- Copyright year: 1995
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat
Volume 1
University of Alabama Press
A Civil War history classic, now back in print.
- Copyright year: 1991
Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
University of Alabama Press
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic
- Copyright year: 2018
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things
University of Alabama Press
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bringing Montessori to America
S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education
By Gerald L. Gutek and Patricia A. Gutek
University of Alabama Press
Tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25
Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Global Stage
Edited by Becky K. Becker; Introduction by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Movement of the People
The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama
By Katie Lamar Jackson; Foreword by David Mathews
University of Alabama Press
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness
- Copyright year: 2017
Paradise Field
A Novel in Stories
By Pamela Ryder
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death
- Copyright year: 2017
Glory Hole
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An enthralling, epic tale of the webs of misinformation that saturate, obscure, and complicate the vagaries of day-to-day life in modern America.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Brief Alphabet of Torture
Stories
By Vi Khi Nao
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence—love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty—a biography of torture
- Copyright year: 2017
Beautiful Politics of Music
Trova in Yucatán, Mexico
University of Alabama Press
An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán
- Copyright year: 2017
Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America
Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications
University of Alabama Press
The latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America
- Copyright year: 2017
1865 Alabama
From Civil War to Uncivil Peace
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating account of the final, pivotal year of the Civil War in Alabama and its effects on Alabama politics today
- Copyright year: 2017
These Rugged Days
Alabama in the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
I couldn’t stop reading it! Bravo!” —Ken Burns, Emmy Award-winning producer and director of The Civil War
- Copyright year: 2017
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Edited by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe; Introduction by Henry B. Wonham; Other primary creator Lawrence Howe
University of Alabama Press
Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life
- Copyright year: 2017
Grandeur of the Everyday
The Paintings of Dale Kennington
By Dale Kennington; Introduction by Daniel White
University of Alabama Press
A lavishly illustrated overview of the life and work of realist painter Dale Kennington, featuring more than eighty-five of her most renowned works.
- Copyright year: 2017
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