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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Maurice Samuel
Life and Letters of a Secular Jewish Contrarian
University of Alabama Press
An intellectual biography that reassesses one of the premier Jewish humanists of the mid-twentieth century
- Copyright year: 2022
Ascension
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind’s vexed relationship with nature
- Copyright year: 2022
An Archaeologist's Guide to Organic Residues in Pottery
University of Alabama Press
A guide for mastering the technical specialty of organic residue analysis of pottery
- Copyright year: 2022
Indians Playing Indian
Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America
University of Alabama Press
Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada
- Copyright year: 2015
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
University of Alabama Press
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities
- Copyright year: 2017
Faithful Deliberation
Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings
By T J Geiger
University of Alabama Press
Investigates the rhetorical practices used by contemporary evangelical Christian women to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities
- Copyright year: 2022
The Attention of a Traveller
Essays on William Bartram's "Travels" and Legacy
Edited by Kathryn H. Braund
University of Alabama Press
New essays that illuminate and interpret William Bartram’s journey through what would become the southeastern United States
- Copyright year: 2022
Surviving Spanish Conquest
Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
University of Alabama Press
Reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550
- Copyright year: 2017
When the Wolf Camped at Our Door
My Childhood in the Great Depression
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the hardships and joys the Kilgore family and their neighbors experienced in a close-knit southern rural community during the Great Depression
- Copyright year: 2022
Evangelical News
Politics, Gender, and Bioethics in Conservative Christian Magazines of the 1970s and 1980s
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive study of evangelical magazine discourse during the 1970s and 1980s and how it navigated and sustained religious convictions in a time of dramatic social change
- Copyright year: 2022
Reframing Rhetorical History
Cases, Theories, and Methodologies
Edited by Kathleen J. Turner and Jason Edward Black; Preface by Kathleen J. Turner; Introduction by Jason Edward Black
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical history
Illusion Is More Precise than Precision
The Poetry of Marianne Moore
University of Alabama Press
Erickson examines the work of Marianne Moore in order to provide some consistently successful strategies for understanding her poetry
- Copyright year: 1992
Getting Out of the Mud
The Alabama Good Roads Movement and Highway Administration, 1898–1928
By Martin T. Olliff; Foreword by David O. Whitten
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the history of the Good Roads Movement that arose in progressive-era Alabama, how it used the power of the state to achieve its objectives of improving market roads for farmers and highways for automobiles
- Copyright year: 2017
The Great Beyond
Art in the Age of Annihilation
University of Alabama Press
Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality—forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more
- Copyright year: 2022
Tell Mother I'm in Paradise
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner in El Salvador
Edited by Judy Blankenship and Andrew Wilson; By Ana Margarita Gasteazoro; Introduction by Erik Ching
University of Alabama Press
The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience
- Copyright year: 2022
Crayfishes of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive assessment of the 99 known species of crayfishes inhabiting the state of Alabama
- Copyright year: 2022
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
By Lee Rozelle
University of Alabama Press
A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster
- Copyright year: 2016
Distracted by Alabama
Tangled Threads of Natural History, Local History, and Folklore
University of Alabama Press
Bestselling reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama by an Alabama writers and scholar
- Copyright year: 2022
Their Determination to Remain
A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina
By Lance Greene
University of Alabama Press
The remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears
- Copyright year: 2022
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 29
Theatre and Race
Edited by Andrew Gibb
University of Alabama Press
Essays whose composition and editing were undertaken almost entirely within the transformed cultural and professional landscape of 2020
- Copyright year: 2022
Wreading
A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?
By Jed Rasula
University of Alabama Press
A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar
- Copyright year: 2022
Of Mules and Mud
The Story of Alabama Folk Potter Jerry Brown
University of Alabama Press
The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words
- Copyright year: 2022
Whenever Two or More Are Gathered
Relationship as the Heart of Ethical Discourse
By Michael M. Harmon and O. C. McSwite
University of Alabama Press
Makes the case for human relationship as the proper foundation of administrative ethics
- Copyright year: 2011
Richmond's Priests and Prophets
Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways in which white Christian leaders in Richmond, Virginia navigated the shifting legal and political battles around desegregation even as members of their congregations struggled with their own understanding of a segregated society
- Copyright year: 2017
Climate Politics on the Border
Environmental Justice Rhetorics
University of Alabama Press
Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community
- Copyright year: 2022
Beyond the Boomerang
From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics
Edited by Christopher L. Pallas and Elizabeth A. Bloodgood; Afterword by Jan Aart Scholte; Foreword by Marisa von Bülow
University of Alabama Press
Essays that generate a new, empirically grounded theory of transnational advocacy
- Copyright year: 2022
Valor and Courage
The Story of the USS Block Island Escort Carriers in World War II
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
- Copyright year: 2021
White Wedding
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An enigmatic woman wanders from a pleasure mansion to a backyard wedding, upending the lives of everyone present
- Copyright year: 2022
The Fabric of Resistance
Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru
By Di Hu
University of Alabama Press
Examines the long-term social conditions that enabled large-scale rebellions in late Spanish colonial Peru
- Copyright year: 2022
Swimming with Dead Stars
By Vi Khi Nao
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation
- Copyright year: 2022
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