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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Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
University of Alabama Press
Continuing Bonds with the Dead explores the redemptive literary achievements of five nineteenth-century American authors who lost a son or daughter. In it, Harold K. Bush illuminates America’s evolving cultural attitudes about death and grief.
- Copyright year: 2016
Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics
University of Alabama Press
This study of physical and sexual child abuse in the Deep South was designed to determine the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the state of Alabama, to identify the characteristics of confirmed child abuse, and to test the hypothesis that community size would contribute to a unique picture of the surveillance, reporting, and caseworker determination of abuse.
- Copyright year: 1988
After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Edited by Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller
University of Alabama Press
Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading
- Copyright year: 1985
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
University of Alabama Press
An audacious, interdisciplinary study that combines the burgeoning fields of digital aesthetics and eco-criticism
- Copyright year: 2016
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age
University of Alabama Press
Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age posits a framework for the scholarly community, policy makers, and lay readers for understanding the legal and military aspects of drone warfare.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34
Edited by Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
University of Alabama Press
The 2015 volume of Theatre History Studies presents a collection of five critical essays examining the intersection of theatre studies and historiography as well as twenty-five book reviews highlighting recent scholarship in this thriving field.
- Copyright year: 2015
Service as Mandate
How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920–2015
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Completing a comprehensive history of America’s land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
- Copyright year: 2015
Fabricating the People
Politics and Administration in the Biopolitical State
University of Alabama Press
Fabricating the People boldly proposes post-representational governance that reframes the practice of modern democracy and reinvents the role of public administration.
- Copyright year: 2012
Experience
Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion
University of Alabama Press
Norman Fischer’s Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Story They Told Us of Light
Poems
By Rodney Jones
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1980
Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
University of Alabama Press
Offers a rare exploration of the substantial environmental impact of capitalist sugar agriculture, colonial settlement, and the Atlantic slave trade on the Caribbean island of Nevis
- Copyright year: 2015
Modern Organization
By Victor A. Thompson; Introduction by Victor A. Thompson
University of Alabama Press
In Modern Organization, Victor A. Thompson tackles arbitrary power structures and their hold over more specialized but less appreciated workers. The book is ultimately interested in righting dynamics between power and knowledge in the modern working world.
- Copyright year: 1961
Fighting Monsters in the Abyss
The Second Administration of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, 2006–2010
University of Alabama Press
Studies the complex constraints and trade-offs the second administration of Colombian President Uribe (2006–2010) encountered as it attempted to resolve that nation’s violent Marxist insurrection and to have a more efficient judicial system
- Copyright year: 2015
St. Elmo
Or, Saved at Last
By Augusta Jane Evans; Introduction by Diane Roberts
University of Alabama Press
The top-selling novel by prolific Southern writer Augusta J. Evans, St. Elmo was more widely read in its day than Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel traces the relationship between a charming and charismatic lothario, St. Elmo, and the beautiful and chaste Edna Earl.
- Copyright year: 1992
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry
Edited by John P. Hermann and John J. Burke Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Signs and Symbols in Chaucer’s Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.
- Copyright year: 1981
In Service to American Pharmacy
The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.
University of Alabama Press
Higby examines the professional life of William Procter, Jr., generally regarded as the “Father of American Pharmacy,” and follows the development of American pharmacy through four decades of Procter’s professional commitment to the field.
Haunted Presence
The Numinous in Gothic Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Haunted Presence: The Numinous in Gothic Fiction explores the relationship between the Gothic mode of literature and modern studies in the psychology of religious experience, arguing in each case that the central motif is the numinous: the sense of wonder, mystery, and fascination that the human being historically experiences in encounters with the Divine.
- Copyright year: 1987
Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War
From Creation to Betrayal
University of Alabama Press
Explores how the Creek War of 1813–1814 not only affected Creek Indians but also acted as a catalyst for deep cultural and political transformation within the society of the United States’ Cherokee allies
- Copyright year: 2015
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
University of Alabama Press
The essays in The Motherhood Business examine how consumer culture both constrains and empowers contemporary motherhood. The collection demonstrates that the logic of consumerism and entrepreneurship has redefined both the experience of mothering and the marketplace.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Politics of Trust
Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the extraordinary political career of Reubin Askew, governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979, under whose unorthodox leadership Florida undertook numerous successful reform initiatives
- Copyright year: 2015
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