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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Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt

A History of Perry County

University of Alabama Press

Reconstruction politics and race relations between freed Blacks and the white establishment in Perry County, Alabama
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Captives in Blue

The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

University of Alabama Press

A study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons

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Barbecue

The History of an American Institution, Revised and Expanded Second Edition

University of Alabama Press

The definitive history of an iconic American food, with new chapters, sidebars, and updated historical accounts

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Alabama Justice

The Cases and Faces That Changed a Nation

University of Alabama Press

Examines the legacies of eight momentous US Supreme Court decisions that have their origins in Alabama legal disputes
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810

University of Alabama Press

A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment
 

  • Copyright year: 2003
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The World through the Dime Store Door

A Memoir

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Feminist Connections

Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place

University of Alabama Press

Highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and space
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Out of Nowhere Into Nothing

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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Disorder in the Court

Morality, Myth, and the Insanity Defense

University of Alabama Press

The first book-length rhetorical history and analysis of the insanity defense

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Mammals of the Southeastern United States

University of Alabama Press

First comprehensive account of the mammals of the entire southeastern US
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Kitchen Economics

Women’s Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy

University of Alabama Press

An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Las Varas

Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes

University of Alabama Press

Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establish the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Civil Becomings

Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean

University of Alabama Press

An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organizations

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Zionism and the Melting Pot

Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics

University of Alabama Press

Traces the roots of ideologies and outlooks that shape Jewish life in Israel and the United States today

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Surveillance, Transparency, and Democracy

Public Administration in the Information Age

University of Alabama Press

Investigates public administration’s increasing dependence on technology and how its pervasive use in complex and interrelated socioeconomic and political affairs has outstripped the ability of many public administrators and the public to grasp the consequences of their choices
 

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From Temporary Migrants to Permanent Attractions

Tourism, Cultural Heritage, and Afro-Antillean Identities in Panama

University of Alabama Press

A new reading of Panama’s nation-building process, interpreted through a lens of transnational tourism

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years

University of Alabama Press

Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Between the Sword and the Wall

The Santos Peace Negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

University of Alabama Press

Chronicles the peace process negotiations between Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A War State All Over

Alabama Politics and the Confederate Cause

University of Alabama Press

An in-depth political study of Alabama’s government during the Civil War
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Spaces of Violence

University of Alabama Press

Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels
 

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The Blues Muse

Race, Gender, and Musical Celebrity in American Poetry

University of Alabama Press

A critical analysis of the poetic representations and legacies of five landmark blues artists

  • Copyright year: 2018
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American Poetry as Transactional Art

University of Alabama Press

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Architects of Memory

Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age

University of Alabama Press

Probes the development of information management after World War II and its consequences for public memory and human agency

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mark Twain

The Complete Interviews

University of Alabama Press

The great writer’s irascible wit shines in this comprehensive collection
 

  • Copyright year: 2006
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Engineering Security

The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815–1861

University of Alabama Press

Thorough examination of the antebellum fortifications that formed the backbone of U.S. military defense during the National Period

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Chesnutt and Realism

A Study of the Novels

University of Alabama Press

Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism
 

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Portraits of Remembrance

Painting, Memory, and the First World War

Edited by Margaret Hutchison and Steven Trout; Afterword by Jay M. Winter
University of Alabama Press

Interdisciplinary collection of essays on fine art painting as it relates to the First World War and commemoration of the conflict

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Cookery

Food Rhetorics and Social Production

Edited by Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein; Afterword by Greg Dickinson
University of Alabama Press

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Goodbye, My Tribe

An Evangelical Exodus

University of Alabama Press

Memoir of a writer’s growing disenchantment with his evangelical upbringing
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions

University of Alabama Press

Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Home without Walls

Southern Baptist Women and Social Reform in the Progressive Era

University of Alabama Press

A critical examination of the Woman’s Missionary Union and how it shaped the views of Southern Baptist women

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights

A Brief History with Documents

University of Alabama Press

An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas

  • Copyright year: 2020
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A Final Reckoning

A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah

University of Alabama Press

A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research
 

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Feeding Cahokia

Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland

University of Alabama Press

An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia

  • Copyright year: 2019
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André Michaux in North America

Journals and Letters, 1785–1797

University of Alabama Press

Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Fictions of Certitude

Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920

University of Alabama Press

The search for belief and meaning among nineteenth-century intellectuals

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Between Dixie and Zion

Southern Baptists and Palestine before Israel

University of Alabama Press

Explores the roots of evangelical Christian support for Israel through an examination of the Southern Baptist Convention

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mark Twain, the World, and Me

"Following the Equator," Then and Now

University of Alabama Press

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

A scholar accompanies Twain on his journey around the world
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Town of Whispering Dolls

Stories

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

WINNER OF FC2’S CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE
 
Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Green Revolution in the Global South

Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences

University of Alabama Press

A synthesis of the agricultural history of the Green Revolution

  • Copyright year: 2020
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