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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It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, Jessica Lee Richardson’s debut collection of short fiction, was the tenth winner of the Fiction Collective Two (FC2) Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. The book invites readers on a bodily journey through a darkly funny, buoyantly untethered storyscape.
- Copyright year: 2015
Education for Liberation
The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
By Joe M. Richardson and Maxine D. Jones
University of Alabama Press
Education for Liberation completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War II era.
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
University of Alabama Press
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
By Paul A. Shapiro; Translated by Angela Jianu
University of Alabama Press
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.
- Copyright year: 2015
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
University of Alabama Press
A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.
Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900–1975
University of Alabama Press
This well-written volume explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the 20th century.
- Copyright year: 1995
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
University of Alabama Press
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.
- Copyright year: 2015
Avenues of Faith
Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929
University of Alabama Press
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
Captain Billy's Troopers
A Writer's Life
By William Cobb
University of Alabama Press
Opens a candid window into the life of a writer and teacher who overcame years of addiction and serious health problems as his voice, artistic vision, and sense of self evolved and matured
- Copyright year: 2015
The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism
University of Alabama Press
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2015
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