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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Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
University of Alabama Press
This ground-breaking rhetorical analysis examines a 1987 Massachusetts law affecting infertility treatment and the cultural context that makes such a law possible
American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard
Edited by Robert McClure Smith and Ellen Weinauer
University of Alabama Press
Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods
- Copyright year: 2003
After War Times
An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
By T. Thomas Fortune; Edited by Daniel R. Weinfeld; Introduction by Dawn J. Herd-Clark; Afterword by Tameka Bradley Hobbs
University of Alabama Press
Twenty-three autobiographical articles by noted African American journalist T. Thomas Fortune, comprising a late-life memoir of his childhood in Reconstruction-era Florida
- Copyright year: 2014
Alabama Governors
A Political History of the State
University of Alabama Press
An entirely revised and updated edition of the best-selling 2001 original
- Copyright year: 2014
Our Southern Zion
A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the ways a particular religious tradition and a distinct social context have interacted over a 300-year period, including the unique story of the oldest and largest African American Calvinist community in America
- Copyright year: 1996
Storm of Words
Science, Religion, and Evolution in the Civil War Era
University of Alabama Press
A study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions
- Copyright year: 2014
Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom
Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Communities along the Alabama River
University of Alabama Press
Reconstructing Tascalusa’s Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition.
- Copyright year: 2014
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Edited by Monika Elbert
University of Alabama Press
Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literature
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980
The First Twenty Days
By Kathleen Dupes Hawk, Ron Villella, and Adolfo Leyva de Varona; Edited by Kristen Cifers; Foreword by Bob Graham
University of Alabama Press
Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980 recounts first-hand the drama and political intrigue that erupted when more than thirty thousand Cuban refugees fled to Florida and the stories of the first responders who aided them.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze
Regarding Subjectivity
By John Dolis
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and unique vision of the world
The Emperor Redressed
Critiquing Critical Theory
Edited by Dwight Eddins; Introduction by Dwight Eddins
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1995
Tell the World You're a Wildflower
Stories
University of Alabama Press
In Tell the World You’re a Wildflower, Jennifer Horne luminously brings to life the criss-crossing experiences of Southern women in twenty-four contemporary short stories.
- Copyright year: 2014
Simon Baruch
Rebel in the Ranks of Medicine, 1840-1921
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the remarkable life of a Prussian/Polish Jew who immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1850s and became one of the nation’s best-known physicians by the turn of the century
Knowing the Suffering of Others
Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings
Edited by Austin Sarat; Introduction by Austin Sarat
University of Alabama Press
In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.
- Copyright year: 2014
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893
By Ben Railton
University of Alabama Press
Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
Beside the Troubled Waters
A Black Doctor Remembers Life, Medicine, and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
University of Alabama Press
A memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the segregationist era
The Woman I Am
Southern Baptist Women's Writings, 1906–2006
University of Alabama Press
Melody Maxwell’s The Woman I Am analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions.
- Copyright year: 2014
The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel
University of Alabama Press
Many Jewish artists and writers contributed to the creation of popular comics and graphic novels, and in The Quest for Jewish Belief and Identity in the Graphic Novel, Stephen E. Tabachnick takes readers on an engaging tour of graphic novels that explore themes of Jewish identity and belief.
- Copyright year: 2014
Sacrifice and Survival
Identity, Mission, and Jesuit Higher Education in the American South
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the history and development of Jesuit higher education in the American South
- Copyright year: 2014
Miles of Stare
Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America
University of Alabama Press
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
- Copyright year: 2014
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