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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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism

University of Alabama Press

Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929

  • Copyright year: 2015
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Alabama

The Making of an American State

University of Alabama Press

A thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Edgar and Brigitte

A German Jewish Passage to America

University of Alabama Press

 A consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding

  • Copyright year: 2016
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The Vast and Terrible Drama

American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
 

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The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman

University of Alabama Press

A witness who brings remarkable life and color to the Civil War in the East

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A Man's Game

Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism

University of Alabama Press

Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism

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Year of the Rat

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Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Exploring Wild Alabama

A Guide to the State's Publicly Accessible Natural Areas

University of Alabama Press

The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama’s publicly accessible natural destinations

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Lost City, Found Pyramid

Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices

University of Alabama Press

Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices explores the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the ways that professional archaeologists can respond to sensationalized depictions of archaeology and archaeologists.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Coming Out of War

Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars

University of Alabama Press

Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars is a wide-ranging and accessible account of American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World War I and World War II. In it, Stout argues that poetry, of all the arts, most fully captures and conveys the modern culture of grief embodied by war experiences.

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Beyond Boundaries

Rereading John Steinbeck

University of Alabama Press

The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influence
 

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Ain't Nothin' But a Winner

Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime

By Barry Krauss and Joe M. Moore; Foreword by Don Shula
University of Alabama Press

A rollicking memoir from the linebacker at the heart of the most famous Alabama football play of all time

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

University of Alabama Press

Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to Georgia’s thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations.

  • Copyright year: 1987
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Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

Commemorative Edition

University of Alabama Press

This keepsake edition of the timeless bestseller Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh reproduces in facsimile the original hardcover version of a beloved classic.

  • Copyright year: 1969
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Civil War Weather in Virginia

University of Alabama Press

Civil War Weather in Virginia fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia.

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Footprints in Stone

Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods

University of Alabama Press

Footprints in Stone is the definitive guide to the Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site in northwest Alabama, the discovery of whose vast quantity of 310-million-year-old fossil tetrapod footprints and other traces is one of the most significant developments in modern paleontology.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Theatre Symposium, Vol. 24

Theatre and Space

Edited by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press

Addresses “theatre and space” as a wide-ranging topic in theatre history, examining the myriad spatial arrangements, architectural styles, and historical contexts that inform theatrical productions, and the relationships of audiences to those spaces

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Unitarianism in the Antebellum South

The Other Invisible Institution

University of Alabama Press

Macaulay challenges the prevailing belief that religion in the south developed solely through "revivalistic emotion" and not by religious rationalism.


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Thomas Goode Jones

Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South

University of Alabama Press

Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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