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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Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns

An Archaeological Study at Moundville

University of Alabama Press

A clearly written description of the analytical procedures employed on ceramic samples obtained at Moundville and the new chronology discovered

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Under the Rattlesnake

Cherokee Health and Resiliency

Edited by Lisa J. Lefler; Foreword by Susan Leading Fox
University of Alabama Press

Provides a balanced portrait of Cherokee health issues

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Search for Mabila

The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa

University of Alabama Press

The Search for Mabila describes one of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America, which was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Those Who Remain

A Photographer's Memoir of South Carolina Indians

University of Alabama Press

Through interviews and a generous photograph montage stretching over two decades, reveals the commonality and diversity among these people of Indian identity

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Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley

12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago

University of Alabama Press

In Foraging the Tennessee River Valley, 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago, Hollenbach analyzes and compares botanical remains from archaeological excavations in four rockshelters in the Middle Tennessee River Valley.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Fair to Middlin'

The Antebellum Cotton Trade of the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River Valley

University of Alabama Press

Explores the livelihood of the regional antebellum economy surrounding the Apalachicola/Chattahoochee River valley and the resulting global impact of this industry
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Myths and Realities of Caribbean History

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Headwaters

A Journey on Alabama Rivers

University of Alabama Press

A breathtaking portrait of Alabama rivers

  • Copyright year: 2009
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A Family Home

A History of the President's Mansion at Auburn University

University of Alabama Press

A peek into the lives of the families that called Auburn University’s President’s home.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Emperor's Last Campaign

A Napoleonic Empire in America

University of Alabama Press

The fascinating story of the breakdown of the Spanish empire in America and the rise of the United States as a world power

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Archaeology of Institutional Life

University of Alabama Press

A landmark work that will instigate vigorous and wide-ranging discussions on institutions in Western life, and the power of material culture to both enforce and negate cultural norms
 

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TOC

A New Media Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

TOC is a multimedia epic about time—the invention of the second, the beating of a heart, the story of humans connecting through time to each other and to the world.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Rhetorical Education In America

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Language in Exile

Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole

University of Alabama Press

"An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features."
--SECOL Review

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Ad Hominem Arguments

University of Alabama Press

A vital contribution to legal theory and media and civic discourse

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Mainly the Truth

Interviews with Mark Twain

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2009
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Impotent

A Novel

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

M— is married with children and working a dead end job solely for the insurance and meager income. He’s in a financial and emotional trough, and thus asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L— is a college dropout and construction worker. He self-medicates, starting with Ambien. After he accidentally cuts off some fingers he switches to Darvocet. Later his doctor leads him to Zoloft, once the cocktail of pharmaceuticals. The medicine is meant to wake him up, but instead puts him to sleep.     
 

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Forms at War

FC2 1999-2009

Edited by Ralph M. Berry
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Crossing the River

By Shalom Eilati; Translated by Vern Lenz
University of Alabama Press

Crossing the River is a personal memoir reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine.

  • Copyright year: 2009
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