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

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American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard

University of Alabama Press

Reconsiders the centrality of a remarkable American writer of the ante- and postbellum periods

 

  • Copyright year: 2003
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After War Times

An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Florida and the Mariel Boatlift of 1980

The First Twenty Days

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
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The Style of Hawthorne's Gaze

Regarding Subjectivity

University of Alabama Press

An exploration of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative technique and unique vision of the world

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The Emperor Redressed

Critiquing Critical Theory

Edited by Dwight Eddins; Introduction by Dwight Eddins
University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1995
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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
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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

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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
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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation

American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893

University of Alabama Press

Fables of American history embodied in Gilded Age literature
 

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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

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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
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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
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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
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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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