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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The Fixed Stars

Thirty-Seven Emblems for the Perilous Season

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2

Juxtaposing barbarity and whimsy, Brian Conn’s The Fixed Stars is a novel that has the tenor of a contemporary fable with nearly the same dreamlike logic.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Peripheral Visions

Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan

University of Alabama Press

The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicited

  • Copyright year: 2010
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When Colombia Bled

A History of the Violencia in Tolima

University of Alabama Press

This book focuses on the Colombian Violencia, the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history.

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What is Symbolism?

University of Alabama Press

This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.

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The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home

Explorations in North American Cultural History

University of Alabama Press

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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Strike From the Sky

The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1910-1945

University of Alabama Press

Chronicles the history of battlefield air attack from 1911, when the airplane was first used in war, to the end of World War II.

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More Than Bread

Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

University of Alabama Press

More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state.

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Making Camp

Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture

University of Alabama Press

The rhetorical power of camp in American popular culture

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Twenty-Three Minutes to Eternity

The Final Voyage of the Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay

University of Alabama Press

A long-overdue history of America's "forgotten flattop"

  • Copyright year: 2004
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Creating the Land of the Sky

Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina

University of Alabama Press

A sophisticated inquiry into tourism's social and economic power across the South.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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