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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Impotent
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
M— is married with children and working a dead end job solely for the insurance and meager income. He’s in a financial and emotional trough, and thus asks his doctor for Paxil because he's worried he'll never stop worrying. Meanwhile, L— is a college dropout and construction worker. He self-medicates, starting with Ambien. After he accidentally cuts off some fingers he switches to Darvocet. Later his doctor leads him to Zoloft, once the cocktail of pharmaceuticals. The medicine is meant to wake him up, but instead puts him to sleep.
- Copyright year: 2009
Forms at War
FC2 1999-2009
Edited by Ralph M. Berry
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Forms at War: FC2 1999-2009 collects twenty-three experimental prose works published by Fiction Collective Two during the last decade.
- Copyright year: 2009
Crossing the River
By Shalom Eilati; Translated by Vern Lenz
University of Alabama Press
Crossing the River is a personal memoir reflected through the prism of a sharp-eyed young child, Shalom Eilati. His story starts in the occupied Kovno Ghetto and ends with his flight across the Soviet border, through Poland and Germany and finally, his arrival in Palestine.
- Copyright year: 2009
Clear-Cutting Eden
Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature
University of Alabama Press
Examines how Southern literary depictions of the natural world were influenced by the historical, social, and ecological changes of the 1930s and 1940s
- Copyright year: 2009
Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order
The English Churches in the Delaware Valley
By Jon Butler; Foreword by Keith Harper
University of Alabama Press
This new edition and update of the seminal study, Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order, questions the assumption that colonial American churches were seedbeds of democratic sentiment merely awaiting the American Revolution to cast off the shackles of both political and religious domination.
- Copyright year: 2007
From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights
The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist
By Sara Mitchell Parsons; Foreword by David J. Garrow
University of Alabama Press
This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality
- Copyright year: 2009
Essays in Jewish Thought
University of Alabama Press
Examines and explores diverse topics of Jewish thought and history
- Copyright year: 2009
The Very Worst Road
Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847
Edited by Jeffrey C. Benton
University of Alabama Press
The Very Worst Road contains sixteen contemporary accounts by travelers who reached Alabama along what was known as the “Old Federal Road,” more a network of paths than a single road, that ran from Columbus and points south in Georgia for more or less due west into central Alabama and to where the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers forms the Alabama River.
- Copyright year: 2009
Second Front Now--1943
An Opportunity Delayed
University of Alabama Press
Addresses head-on the central issue of invasion timing in the Allied European strategy of World War II
- Copyright year: 2009
Christian Reconstruction
The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890
University of Alabama Press
Christian Reconstruction traces the history of the American Missionary Association, the most ambitious and successful of the many benevolent societies that worked with the former slaves during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Copyright year: 2008