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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Raphael Semmes
The Philosophical Mariner
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1997
Between the Eagle and the Sun
Traces of Japan
By Ihab Hassan
University of Alabama Press
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
University of Alabama Press
In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.
- Copyright year: 2015
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.
- Copyright year: 2015
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
Lincoln’s Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron’s quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.
- Copyright year: 2014
Immersive Words
Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893
University of Alabama Press
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity.
- Copyright year: 2015
Wings of Gold
An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea
Edited by Wesley Phillips Newton and Robert R. Rea
University of Alabama Press
Wings of Gold presents the personal account of the experiences and reactions of an individual cadet preparing for war in the naval aviation training program at its peak during World War II.
- Copyright year: 1987
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
University of Alabama Press
Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of the complex and violent history of Mexico’s easternmost Gulf Coast region that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics from 1855 to 1876.
- Copyright year: 2015
Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
University of Alabama Press
A highly innovative study in which James B. Stoltman uses petrography to reveal previously undetectable evidence of cultural interaction among Hopewell societies of the Ohio Valley region and the contemporary peoples of the Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Seed
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’, as well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value.
- Copyright year: 2015
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