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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Emancipating Pragmatism
Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing
University of Alabama Press
A radical rereading of Emerson that posits African- American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition
Simulcast
Four Experiments in Criticism
University of Alabama Press
A provocative overview of avant-garde American poetry of the past 25 years that raises important questions about the practice of criticism
- Copyright year: 2004
The Memoire Justificatif of Chevalier Monberaut
Indian Diplomacy in British West Florida, 1763-1765
University of Alabama Press
Presents in greater detail the circumstances and procedure of Indian diplomacy on the Gulf Coast at the beginning of the British period
Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation
University of Alabama Press
Provides insights into important facets of Alabama’s antebellum history
Filibusters and Expansionists
Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821
By Frank L. Owsley and Gene Allen Smith
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson’s “empire of liberty”
- Copyright year: 2004
An Agenda for Antiquity
Henry Fairfield Osborn and Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1935
University of Alabama Press
How and why vertebrate paleontology flourished at New York’s American Museum of Natural History in the early 20th century
- Copyright year: 1991
The Wavering Knife
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane
- Copyright year: 2004
Crossing the Deadly Ground
United States Army Tactics, 1865–1899
University of Alabama Press
Attempts to answer difficult questions about battle tactics employed by the United States Army
The Eagle's Nest
Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842
University of Alabama Press
Contains a useful panoramic account of the fresh perspectives that early American practitioners brought to the natural sciences
- Copyright year: 1986
James Barbour, a Jeffersonian Repulican
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1984
Florida Territory in 1844
The Diary of Master Edward Clifford Anderson, USN
University of Alabama Press
Edward Anderson's diary covers his service in Florida Territory from March 16 to December 31, 1844 during the Navy mission in Florida to protect live oak and pine forests on government land from poachers.
- Copyright year: 1977
Everyday Psychokillers
A History for Girls, A Novel
By Lucy Corin
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Interweaving history, myth, rumor, and news, this first novel explores what it means to grow up as a girl in a culture of girl-killers
- Copyright year: 2004
The Southern Frontier 1670-1732
By Verner Crane; Introduction by Steven C. Hahn
University of Alabama Press
A classic resource on the struggle for dominance in southern North America during the colonial period
- Copyright year: 2004
A History of the Osage People
University of Alabama Press
Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.
The Mound-Builders
By Henry Clyde Shetrone; Introduction by Bradley T. Lepper
University of Alabama Press
A classic resource on early knowledge of prehistoric mounds and the peoples who constructed them in the eastern United States
- Copyright year: 2004
Secessionist Impulse
Alabama and Mississippi in 1860
Introduction by William L. Barney; By William L. Barney
University of Alabama Press
The classic study of the cultural and economic politics that allowed "fire-eaters" to triumph over Unionists in the Deep South
- Copyright year: 2003
Inside Alabama
A Personal History of My State
University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books
An affectionate, irreverent, candid look at the "Heart of Dixie"
- Copyright year: 2003
The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole
Postmodernist Long Poems
By Brian McHale
University of Alabama Press
A smart, eclectic analysis of nine long poems written by postmodernist poets
The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore
University of Alabama Press
The ninth and final volume in the C.B. Moore reprint series that covers archaeological discoveries along North American Waterways.
- Copyright year: 2004
Catawba Indian Pottery
The Survival of a Folk Tradition
By Thomas John Blumer; Foreword by William L. Harris
University of Alabama Press
Traces the craft of pottery making among the Catawba Indians of North Carolina from the late 18th century to the present
- Copyright year: 2004
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