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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Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Edited by Kevin Young and Timothy J. Smith
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2009
The History of the American Indians
University of Alabama Press
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period
- Copyright year: 2009
Trinidad Yoruba
From Mother-Tongue to Memory
University of Alabama Press
A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery.
Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean.
- Copyright year: 2009
Toxic Tourism
Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
University of Alabama Press
The first book length study of the environmental justice movement, tourism, and the links between race, class, and waste
- Copyright year: 2009
Caciques and Cemi Idols
The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
University of Alabama Press
Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola
- Copyright year: 2009
Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns
An Archaeological Study at Moundville
University of Alabama Press
A clearly written description of the analytical procedures employed on ceramic samples obtained at Moundville and the new chronology discovered
- Copyright year: 2009
Under the Rattlesnake
Cherokee Health and Resiliency
Edited by Lisa J. Lefler; Foreword by Susan Leading Fox
University of Alabama Press
Provides a balanced portrait of Cherokee health issues
- Copyright year: 2009
The Selected Letters of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2009
The Search for Mabila
The Decisive Battle between Hernando de Soto and Chief Tascalusa
Edited by Vernon James Knight
University of Alabama Press
The Search for Mabila describes one of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America, which was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa.
- Copyright year: 2009
Those Who Remain
A Photographer's Memoir of South Carolina Indians
University of Alabama Press
Through interviews and a generous photograph montage stretching over two decades, reveals the commonality and diversity among these people of Indian identity
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