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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Year of the Rat
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.
- Copyright year: 2016
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
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson
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
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.
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle
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
Ain't Nothin' But a Winner
Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime
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
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
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
By Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh; Foreword by Dilcy Windham Hilley and Ben Windham
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
The Myth of Water
Poems from the Life of Helen Keller
University of Alabama Press
In The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller, Alabama poet Jeanie Thompson offers a rich collection of poems that form an illuminating first-person narrative through the life of writer and activist Helen Keller.
- Copyright year: 2016
Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans’ perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza
By Ángel Escobar; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Ángel Escobar
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
By Brett Ommen
University of Alabama Press
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
By Ronald Berman; Introduction by Ronald Berman
University of Alabama Press
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz."
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
University of Alabama Press
Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work
- Copyright year: 2016
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