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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Samuel Ullman and "Youth"

The Life, the Legacy

University of Alabama Press

Examines a poem that has not only withstood the vicissitudes of time, but has spread around the world like the waves lapping at a beach

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Legacy of a False Promise

A Daughter's Reckoning

University of Alabama Press

The compelling story of a teenage girl caught up in the throes of the McCarthy era.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Air Power and Armies

University of Alabama Press

An account of Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897–1979), one of Great Britain's most influential airmen

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Out of the Dark

A History of Radio and Rural America

University of Alabama Press

Out of the Dark is a study of radio's impact on rural America in the three decades between its inception and the arrival of television.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Command of the Air

University of Alabama Press

The Italian General Giulio Douhet reigns as one of the twentieth century’s foremost strategic air power theorists. As such scholars as Raymond Flugel have pointed out, Douhet’s theories were crucial at a pivotal pre-World War II Army Air Force institution, the Air Corps Tactical School.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Tin Man

By Charlie Lucas and Ben Windham; Foreword by Robert Farris Thompson and Robert Farris Thomps; By (photographer) Chip Cooper; Introduction by Georgine Clarke
University of Alabama Press

Showcases the extraordinary life and work of an internationally significant Alabama folk artist

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Beautiful Soon Enough

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Winner of FC2's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

University of Alabama Press

An exciting addition to the ongoing debate about the place of regionalism in American literary history.American regionalism has become a contested subject in literary studies alongside the ubiquitous triad of race, class, and gender. The Color of Democracy in Women’s Regional Writing enters into the heart of an ongoing debate in the field about the significance of regional fiction at the end of the 19th century. Jean Griffith presents the innovative view that regional writing provided Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, and Willa Cather with the means to explore social transformation in a form of fiction already closely associated with women readers and writers.Griffith provides new readings of texts by these authors; she places them alongside the works of their contemporaries, including William Faulkner and Langston Hughes, to show regionalism’s responses to the debate over who was capable of democratic participation and reading regionalism’s changing mediations between natives and strangers as reflections of the changing face of democracy.This insightful work enriches the current debate about whether regionalism critiques hierarchies or participates in nationalist and racist agendas and will be of great interest to those invested in regional writing or the works of these significant authors.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Black Education in Alabama, 1865-1901

University of Alabama Press

Explains and describes the development of black private and public, elementary, secondary, normal, and collegiate education in Alabama from emancipation to 1901

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Theatre History Studies 2009, Vol. 29

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. The purpose of MATC is to unite people and organizations in their region with an interest in theatre and to promote the growth and development of all forms of theatre.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The River Gods

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A novel in fragments, a mix of fact and fiction, in which various inhabitants of the area around what is now Northampton, Massachusetts

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Nancy Batson Crews

Alabama's First Lady of Flight

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A riveting oral history/biography of a pioneering woman aviator.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Voices in Exile

Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries

University of Alabama Press

The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came together on the plantations of Jamaica. Accounts of planters, slave-trading captains, and other testimonies from both the colonial and indigenous population effectively illustrate the unfolding of this unique culture.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Rock Art of the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press

Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.

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Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley

University of Alabama Press

Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley addresses the approximately 7,000 years of the prehistory of eastern North America, termed the Archaic Period by archaeologists.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Rhetorical Homologies

Form, Culture, Experience

University of Alabama Press
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Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley

University of Alabama Press

A classic work detailing an 11,000-year period of human culture within the largest river system of North America

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands

University of Alabama Press

A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Captives in Gray

The Civil War Prisons of the Union

University of Alabama Press

Contains contemporary reports from prisoners and witnesses humanize the grim realities of the POW camps
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A Conquering Spirit

Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814

University of Alabama Press

The August 30, 1813, massacre at Fort Mims left hundreds dead and ultimately changed the course of American history. The Indian victory shocked and horrified a young America, ushering in a period of violence surrounded by racial and social confusion. Fort Mims became a rallying cry, calling Americans to fight their assailants and avenge the dead. In A Conquering Spirit, Waselkov thoroughly explicates the social climes surrounding this tumultuous moment in early American history with a comprehensive collection of illustrations, artifact photographs, and detailed accounts of every known participant in the attack on Fort Mims. These rich and extensive resources make A Conquering Spirit an invaluable collection for any reader interested in America’s frontier era. * Winner of the Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year award by the Alabama Library Association* Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley award from the Alabama Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Packhorseman

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

An entertaining, engrossing, and enlightening historical novel that  brings to life the packhorsemen, Indian traders, and southeastern Indians of the early 18th-century Carolina.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Harvest of Violence Revisited

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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The History of the American Indians

By James Adair; Introduction by Kathryn H. Braund; Edited by Kathryn H. Braund
University of Alabama Press

A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Trinidad Yoruba

From Mother-Tongue to Memory

University of Alabama Press

A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery.

Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Toxic Tourism

Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice

University of Alabama Press

The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Caciques and Cemi Idols

The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

University of Alabama Press

Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns

An Archaeological Study at Moundville

University of Alabama Press

A clearly written description of the analytical procedures employed on ceramic samples obtained at Moundville and the new chronology discovered

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Under the Rattlesnake

Cherokee Health and Resiliency

Edited by Lisa J. Lefler; Foreword by Susan Leading Fox
University of Alabama Press

Provides a balanced portrait of Cherokee health issues

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Search for Mabila

The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa

University of Alabama Press

The Search for Mabila describes one of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America, which was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Those Who Remain

A Photographer's Memoir of South Carolina Indians

University of Alabama Press

Through interviews and a generous photograph montage stretching over two decades, reveals the commonality and diversity among these people of Indian identity

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Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley

12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago

University of Alabama Press

In Foraging the Tennessee River Valley, 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago, Hollenbach analyzes and compares botanical remains from archaeological excavations in four rockshelters in the Middle Tennessee River Valley.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Fair to Middlin'

The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley

University of Alabama Press

Explores the livelihood of the regional antebellum economy surrounding the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River valley and the resulting global impact of this industry
 

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Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

University of Alabama Press
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Headwaters

A Journey on Alabama Rivers

University of Alabama Press

A breathtaking portrait of Alabama rivers

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A Family Home

A History of the President's Mansion at Auburn University

University of Alabama Press

A peek into the lives of the families that called Auburn University’s President’s home.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Emperor's Last Campaign

A Napoleonic Empire in America

University of Alabama Press

The fascinating story of the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Archaeology of Institutional Life

University of Alabama Press

A landmark work that will instigate vigorous and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural norms
 

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TOC

A New Media Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

TOC is a multimedia epic about time—the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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