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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Antisubmarine Warrior in the Pacific
Six Subs Sunk in Twelve Days
University of Alabama Press
A first-hand account of the USS England's accomplishments, written by its commanding officer
Historic Watermills of North America
A Visual Preservation
University of Alabama Press
112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape
- Copyright year: 2021
Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century
Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing
Edited by Robin Behn; Introduction by Robin Behn
University of Alabama Press
Fun and innovative exercises and prompts for creative writing students
- Copyright year: 2020
Mastering the Law
Slavery and Freedom in the Legal Ecology of the Spanish Empire
University of Alabama Press
Explores the legal relationships of enslaved people and their descendants during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spanish America
- Copyright year: 2020
Through the Window, Out the Door
Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion
University of Alabama Press
This informative and provocative study focuses on the centrality of departure in the texts of five major American women novelists.
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 28
Theatre and Citizenship
Edited by Andrew Gibb
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays whose authors reach beyond simple definitions of citizenship as determined by documents and legal rights
- Copyright year: 2020
The Conscience of a Lawyer
Clifford J. Durr and American Civil Liberties, 1899–1975
University of Alabama Press
An Alabama lawyer who played an important role in defending activists and other accused of disloyalty during the New Deal and McCarthy eras
The Sephardim in the Holocaust
A Forgotten People
University of Alabama Press
Documents the first-hand experiences in the Holocaust of the Sephardim from Greece, the Balkans, North Africa, Libya, Cos, and Rhodes
- Copyright year: 2020
The New Woman in Alabama
Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890–1920
University of Alabama Press
Between 1890 and 1920, middle-class white and black Alabama women created many clubs and organizations that took them out of the home and provided them with roles in the public sphere and spearheaded the drive to eliminate child labor, worked to improve the educational system, upgraded the jails and prisons, and created reform schools for both boys and girls. Thomas’s book is the first of its kind to focus on the reform activities of women during the Progressive Era, and the first to consider the southern woman and all the organizations of middle-class black and white women in the South and particularly in Alabama
- Copyright year: 1992
Enemy in the Blood
Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina
University of Alabama Press
Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina examines the dramatic yet mostly forgotten history of malaria control in northwest Argentina. Carter traces the evolution of malaria science and policy in Argentina from the disease’s emergence as a social problem in the 1890s to its effective eradication by 1950.
Civil Wars, Civil Beings, and Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt
A History of Perry County
By Bertis D. English; Foreword by Wayne Flynt
University of Alabama Press
Reconstruction politics and race relations between freed Blacks and the white establishment in Perry County, Alabama
- Copyright year: 2020
Captives in Blue
The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy
University of Alabama Press
A study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons
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
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
The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810
By Benjamin Hawkins; Edited by Howard Thomas Foster
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment
- Copyright year: 2003
The World through the Dime Store Door
A Memoir
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2020
Feminist Connections
Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place
Edited by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette; Foreword by Tarez Samra Graban; Afterword by Kristine L. Blair
University of Alabama Press
Highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and space
- Copyright year: 2020
Out of Nowhere Into Nothing
By Caryl Pagel
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2020
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
Mammals of the Southeastern United States
By Troy L. Best and John L. Hunt
University of Alabama Press
First comprehensive account of the mammals of the entire southeastern US
- Copyright year: 2020
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
Las Varas
Ritual and Ethnicity in the Ancient Andes
By Howard Tsai
University of Alabama Press
Archaeological data from Las Varas, Peru, that establish the importance of ritual in constructing ethnic boundaries
- Copyright year: 2020
Civil Becomings
Performative Politics in the Amazon and the Mediterranean
By Raúl Acosta
University of Alabama Press
An anthropological approach to an emerging form of transnational political engagement by independent civil society organizations
- Copyright year: 2020
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
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
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
Gertrude Stein's Surrealist Years
By Ery Shin
University of Alabama Press
Examines how surrealism enriches our understanding of Stein’s writing through its poetics of oppositions
- Copyright year: 2020
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
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
The Spaces of Violence
By James Giles
University of Alabama Press
Probes the interrelationship of violence and space in ten contemporary American novels
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