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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Double-Check for Sleeping Children
Stories
By Kirstin Allio; Foreword by Matt Bell
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize, Double-Check for Sleeping Children is the newest work by award-winning writer Kirstin Allio
- Copyright year: 2024
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum African Expedition of 1896
University of Alabama Press
The rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections
- Copyright year: 2024
Now Is the Time to Collect
Daniel Giraud Elliot, Carl Akeley, and the Field Museum Africa Expedition of 1896
University of Alabama Press
The rediscovery of a curator’s lost journal illuminates the astonishing African journey that formed the basis of the Chicago Field Museum’s famed collections
- Copyright year: 2024
A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Pedro Luengo and Gene Allen Smith
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
- Copyright year: 2024
A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Pedro Luengo and Gene Allen Smith
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
- Copyright year: 2024
Escaping Hitler
A Jewish Haven in Chile
University of Alabama Press
Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s major institutions.
- Copyright year: 2013
Some Nightmares Are Real
The Haunting Truth Behind Alabama’s Supernatural Tales
By Kelly Kazek; Illustrated by Sarah Cotton
University of Alabama Press
Southern writer and folklorist Kelly Kazek’s collection of eerie and enigmatic Alabama ghost stories
- Copyright year: 2024
Mobile and Havana
Sisters across the Gulf
University of Alabama Press
A sumptuously illustrated and vivid account of the deep ties that bridge the histories and cultures of two colorful and storied port cities
- Copyright year: 2024
The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890–1894
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Edited by Andrew J. Ball
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
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
Fear and the First Amendment
Controversial Cases of the Roberts Court
By Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alabama Railroads
By Wayne Cline
University of Alabama Press
The first comprehensive, illustrated history of Alabama's railroad system
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
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
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