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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Border Diplomacy

The Caroline and McLeod Affairs in Anglo-American-Canadian Relations, 1837-1842

University of Alabama Press

How the United States began to mature and establish itself as a nation contributing to international law

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When Good Men Do Nothing

The Assassination Of Albert Patterson

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A provocative telling of "The Phenix City Story."

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Music Education in the United States

Contemporary Issues

Edited by J. Terry Gates
University of Alabama Press

Reflects the current issues in music education and the ongoing attempt to overcome obstacles to excellence in teaching music

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Billions for Defense

Government Finance by the Defense Plant Corporation During World War II

University of Alabama Press

A full-dress study of the Defense Plant Corporation
 

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The Southern States Since The War

University of Alabama Press

An extraordinarily valuable contribution to the history of the South during Reconstruction

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Heartland English

Variation and Transition in the American Midwest

University of Alabama Press

  “Heartland” English is the first book-length scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern interior of the continental United States. Frazer and his contributors focus on the myth of a uniform, “Midwestern” variety of American English. They show the complex region in which forces-old and new- have led to variety in the spoken language.

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European Metals in Native Hands

Rethinking Technological Change 1640-1683

University of Alabama Press

The first detailed analysis of Native metalworking in the Protohistoric/Contact Period

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Dreamer of the Ghetto

The Life and Works of Israel Zangwill

University of Alabama Press

Udelson provides a trenchant analysis of Zangwill's works set within a historical context, i.e., Jewish emancipation and the dilemma of how one might remain fully Jewish while becoming fully modern.

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See It Now Confronts McCarthyism

Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation

University of Alabama Press

Seeks evidence from media artifacts to reveal aesthetic, cultural, ideological, generic, and historical dimensions from classic television broadcasts

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

An affectionate, humorous account of small town Alabama during the civil rights era.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Gone to Another Meeting

The National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1993

By Faith Rogow; Foreword by Joan Bronk
University of Alabama Press

The first comprehensive history of the oldest national religious Jewish women's organization in the United States

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Blockade Runners of the Confederacy

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

A readable, exciting chronicle of the men and ships that ran federal naval blockades during the Civil War

  • Copyright year: 2004
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The Collected Short Fiction of Marianne Hauser

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
  • Copyright year: 2005
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The Battle for Alabama's Wilderness

Saving the Great Gymnasiums of Nature

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Traces the development of Alabama's environmental movement from its beginnings with the establishment of The Alabama Conservancy in the late 1960s and early '70s to the preservation efforts of present-day activist groups

  • Copyright year: 2005
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United States-Latin American Relations, 1800-1850

The Formative Generations

Edited by T. Ray Shurbutt
University of Alabama Press

To make sense of these relationships, this volume concentrates on Central America, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Describing the particular paths taken by each of the formation of relations with the United States, Shurbutt and his colleagues focus on the American diplomatic community and its effectiveness in tense political situations.

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Granville Sharp Pattison

Anatomist and Antagonist, 1791-1851

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 1987
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Army of Hope, Army of Alienation

Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany

University of Alabama Press

Seeks to penetrate the logic, social structure, and daily practice of life in American military communities in Germany

 

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Hillbilly Realist

Herman Clarence Nixon of Possum Trot

University of Alabama Press

One man’s intellectual odyssey from Victorianism to Modernism

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Osage Indian Customs and Myths

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

The only published record available of the oral cultural traditions of the Osage people.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Travail In An Arab Land

University of Alabama Press

A first-hand account of Romanelli's adventures during the four years he was stranded in Sharifan Morocco between 1787 and 1790. His story makes engaging reading and has been recognized as a significant primary source on Morocco and Moroccan Jews.

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