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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Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
University of Alabama Press
Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2013
They Dragged Them through the Streets
A Novel
By Hilary Plum
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Hilary Plum’s grave and elegant novel They Dragged Them Through the Streets is a bold meditation on human suffering and the sorrowful challenges of men and women striving for collective change.
- Copyright year: 2013
The Pet Thief
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The Pet Thief is a dystopian fable of science, rebellion, humankind’s inhumanity, and the struggle for identity and survival in a post-human world.
- Copyright year: 2013
Traces of Gold
California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West
South by Southwest
Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History
University of Alabama Press
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.
- Copyright year: 2013
Heaven's Soldiers
Free People of Color and the Spanish Legacy in Antebellum Florida
By Frank Marotti; Introduction by Frank Marotti
University of Alabama Press
Heaven’s Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of legal bondage, in East Florida in the four decades leading up to the Civil War.
- Copyright year: 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation
University of Alabama Press
Examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people in ethnography and in anthropological work
- Copyright year: 2013
Letters from Alabama
Chiefly Relating to Natural History
University of Alabama Press
This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state.
- Copyright year: 2013
Shovel Ready
Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America
Edited by Bernard K. Means; Introduction by Bernard K. Means
University of Alabama Press
Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology.
- Copyright year: 2013
Fieldworks
From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
By Lytle Shaw
University of Alabama Press
Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.
- Copyright year: 2013
Connections after Colonialism
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
University of Alabama Press
Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.
- Copyright year: 2013
Bluejackets in the Blubber Room
A Biography of the William Badger,1828-1865
By Peter Kurtz; Preface by Peter Kurtz
University of Alabama Press
Explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger
- Copyright year: 2013
Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship
University of Alabama Press
By contextualizing classes and their kinship behavior within the overall political economy, Crafting Prehispanic Maya Kinship provides an example of how archaeology can help to explain the formation of disparate classes and kinship patterns within an ancient state-level society.
- Copyright year: 2013
F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century
University of Alabama Press
This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.
- Copyright year: 2003
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
University of Alabama Press
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross
Catholic-Protestant Relations in the Old South
University of Alabama Press
Southern Crucifix, Southern Cross examines the complex and often overlooked relationships between Catholics and Protestants in the antebellum South.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt
Arthur Train and His Great Literary Hoax
By Molly Guptill Manning; Foreword by John Train
University of Alabama Press
The Myth of Ephraim Tutt explores the true and previously untold story behind one of the most elaborate literary hoaxes in American history.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Darkness of the Present
Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly
University of Alabama Press
The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics.
- Copyright year: 2012
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
University of Alabama Press
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus
Getting Right With God
Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995
By Mark Newman
University of Alabama Press
This groundbreaking study finds Southern Baptists more diverse in their attitudes toward segregation than previously assumed
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