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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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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Dear Incomprehension

On American Speculative Fiction

University of Alabama Press

A poetic meditation on the challenges and pleasures of contemporary speculative fiction

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Unsettling Brazil

Urban Indigenous and Black Peoples' Resistances to Dependent Settler Capitalism

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes favela, quilombola, and indigenous communities’ responses to settler colonialism in urban Brazil. Based on ethnographic research and her experiences growing up in Brazil, the author tells the stories of communities in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte

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Theatre History Studies 2023, Vol. 42

University of Alabama Press

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre Conference

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Samson Raphael Hirsch's Religious Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

University of Alabama Press

An account of how Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch promulgated an inclusive vision of Judaism in the context of advancing the civic equality of German Jews in the nineteenth century


 

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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 1

Prehistory through the Middle Woodland Period

University of Alabama Press

The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Tannery Bay

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A volume which explores Black Joy, Queer Joy, and the ways in which family is both biological and chosen

  • Copyright year: 2024
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American Examples

New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three

University of Alabama Press

Fresh perspectives on the study of religion, ranging from #RadTrad to the “FeeJee Mermaid”
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Odyssey of a Wandering Mind

The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author

University of Alabama Press

A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own


 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Houseboat Veronica

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

A mythopoetic journey to the edge of the world and to the edges of reason, horror, and beauty with a witch and her young ward.

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Blessed Are the Activists

Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala

University of Alabama Press

Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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