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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Paradise Field
A Novel in Stories
By Pamela Ryder
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Interconnected stories depicting the last years of a WWII bomber pilot, his relationship with his daughter as both child and adult, and his drift into infirmity and death
- Copyright year: 2017
Glory Hole
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An enthralling, epic tale of the webs of misinformation that saturate, obscure, and complicate the vagaries of day-to-day life in modern America.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Brief Alphabet of Torture
Stories
By Vi Khi Nao
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
An unflinching and riveting meditation on the pain that attends every facet of existence—love and sacrifice and intimacy and beauty—a biography of torture
- Copyright year: 2017
Beautiful Politics of Music
Trova in Yucatán, Mexico
University of Alabama Press
An exploration into the history and practice of trova, a genre of music that is the soul of Yucatán
- Copyright year: 2017
Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America
Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications
University of Alabama Press
The latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America
- Copyright year: 2017
1865 Alabama
From Civil War to Uncivil Peace
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating account of the final, pivotal year of the Civil War in Alabama and its effects on Alabama politics today
- Copyright year: 2017
These Rugged Days
Alabama in the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
I couldn’t stop reading it! Bravo!” —Ken Burns, Emmy Award-winning producer and director of The Civil War
- Copyright year: 2017
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Edited by Henry B. Wonham and Lawrence Howe; Introduction by Henry B. Wonham; Other primary creator Lawrence Howe
University of Alabama Press
Explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life
- Copyright year: 2017
Grandeur of the Everyday
The Paintings of Dale Kennington
By Dale Kennington; Introduction by Daniel White
University of Alabama Press
A lavishly illustrated overview of the life and work of realist painter Dale Kennington, featuring more than eighty-five of her most renowned works.
- Copyright year: 2017
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
University of Alabama Press
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
- Copyright year: 2017
Keep Your Airspeed Up
The Story of a Tuskegee Airman
By Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner
University of Alabama Press
Inspiring memoir of Colonel Harold H. Brown, one of the 930 original Tuskegee pilots, whose dramatic wartime exploits and postwar professional successes contribute to this extraordinary account.
- Copyright year: 2017
Word Toys
Poetry and Technics
University of Alabama Press
An engaging and thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of textual works—poetic, novelistic, and programmed—as technical objects
- Copyright year: 2017
Unity in Christ and Country
American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801
University of Alabama Press
Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801
- Copyright year: 2017
Ancient Ocean Crossings
Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas
University of Alabama Press
Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another
- Copyright year: 2017
Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5
Edited by Ericha Shelton-Nix
University of Alabama Press
Collects the most recent findings of virtually all experts in the field as of 2012
- Copyright year: 2017
What Democracy Looks Like
The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics
Edited by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness; Introduction by Christina R. Foust, Amy Pason, and Kate Zittlow Rogness
University of Alabama Press
A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies
- Copyright year: 2017
The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art
University of Alabama Press
In both his short fiction and major works, Nathaniel Hawthorne, like many romantics, is torn between the eighteenth-century view of an orderly, balanced, static art and universe, on the one hand, and the nineteenth-century conception of a changeful, various art on the other. Hawthorne based his social and psychological values on an organic view of the world, but the world of his art tended to be mechanistic. Johnson argues that Hawthorne found in theology the myths which became vehicles for his exploration of his art.
- Copyright year: 1981
John Archibald Campbell
Southern Moderate, 1811–1889
University of Alabama Press
The first full biography of the southern U.S. Supreme Court justice who championed both the U.S. Constitution and states’ rights
Alabama Afternoons
Profiles and Conversations
By Roy Hoffman
University of Alabama Press
A collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure, profiled by award-winning journalist and novelist Roy Hoffman
Modernism the Morning After
By Bob Perelman
University of Alabama Press
Articulates a more capacious model for thinking about modernism, past, present, and future
- Copyright year: 2017
Earline's Pink Party
The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman
By Elizabeth Findley Shores; Introduction by Elizabeth Findley Shores
University of Alabama Press
In Earline’s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast
University of Alabama Press
Explores the evolution of houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian period (ca. 200 BC to 1800 AD)
- Copyright year: 2017
On Strawberry Hill
The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling
By Paula Ivaska Robbins; Foreword by Char Miller
University of Alabama Press
While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now, has remained relatively unknown.
- Copyright year: 2017
Forging Southeastern Identities
Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South
Edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith
University of Alabama Press
Forging Southeastern Identities explores the many ways archaeologists and ethnohistorians define and trace the origins of Native Americans’ collective social identity.
- Copyright year: 2017
Ecoviews Too
Ecology for All Seasons
University of Alabama Press
Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations, in an engaging and informative manner.
- Copyright year: 2017
Calligraphy Typewriters
The Selected Poems of Larry Eigner
University of Alabama Press
The first and only single-volume collection of Larry Eigner’s most significant poems, gathering in one place the most celebrated of the several thousand poems that constitute his remarkable life’s work
- Copyright year: 2016
Taking Christianity to China
Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850–1950
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 2017
Pecan
America's Native Nut Tree
By Lenny Wells
University of Alabama Press
Written in a manner suitable for a popular audience and including color photographs and recipes for some common uses of the nut, Pecan: America’s Native Nut Tree gathers scientific, historical, and anecdotal information to present a comprehensive view of the largely unknown story of the pecan.
- Copyright year: 2017
Going for Gold
The History of Newmont Mining Corporation
University of Alabama Press
Details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains the second largest gold miner in the world
- Copyright year: 2016
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work
The Making of "The Great Gatsby"
University of Alabama Press
F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work probes the complex story behind the sources that inspired Fitzgerald, his writing of the novel, and the enduring legacy of The Great Gatsby.
- Copyright year: 2014
Come Landfall
A Novel
By Roy Hoffman
University of Alabama Press
Set along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Come Landfall tells the stories of three women and the men they love in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal.
The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character, tracing a chicken-scratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old age.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Ace of Lightning
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A collection of stories based on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, which led to World War I
- Copyright year: 2017
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman
Stories
By Aimee Parkison; Foreword by Stephen Graham Jones
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A darkly comical horror lurks beneath the surface of everyday events in Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman, a seductively poetic story collection of unusual brilliance and rare humor.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Essential Hayim Greenberg
Essays and Addresses on Jewish Culture, Socialism, and Zionism
Edited by Mark A. Raider; Introduction by Mark A. Raider; Foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr; By Hayim Greenberg
University of Alabama Press
This landmark collection showcases the writings of Hayim Greenberg, a founder of the Labor Zionist movement in America and a foremost writer, thinker, and activist in the fields of twentieth-century Jewish culture and politics.
- Copyright year: 2016
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba
A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898
University of Alabama Press
Memoir of My Youth in Cuba: A Soldier in the Spanish Army during the Separatist War, 1895–1898 by Josep Conangla is an important addition to the accounts of Spanish and Cuban soldiers who served in Cuba’s second War of Independence.
- Copyright year: 2017
Shot in Alabama
A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers
By Frances Osborn Robb; Preface by Frances Osborn Robb
University of Alabama Press
A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium
- Copyright year: 2016
The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens
By Anca Rosu
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates that Wallace Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language.
Nationalizing a Borderland
War, Ethnicity, and Anti-Jewish Violence in East Galicia, 1914–1920
University of Alabama Press
Examines the causes of the rise of xenophobic nationalism and antisemitic genocide in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia between 1914 and 1920.
Disturbing Indians
The Archaeology of Southern Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Disturbing Indians describes how William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Andrew Lytle, and Caroline Gordon reimagined and reconstructed the Native American past in their work.
- Copyright year: 2007
Theatre History Studies 2016, Vol. 35
Edited by Sara Freeman; Introduction by Sara Freeman
University of Alabama Press
Theatre History Studies is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-American Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice.
- Copyright year: 2016
The World as Presence/El mundo como ser
University of Alabama Press
"Longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry" (https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2017/06/26/announcing-the-2017-national-translation-award-longlists-for-poetry-and-prose/).
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.
Marcelo Morales’s The World as Presence/El mundo como ser is the debut of a gripping collection of poetry from one of Cuba’s premier young poets.
- Copyright year: 2016
Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms
Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast
University of Alabama Press
Rounds out Edward J. Lenik’s comprehensive and expert study of the rock art of northeastern Native Americans
- Copyright year: 2016
The Eleventh House
Memoirs
By Hudson Strode; Introduction by Don Noble
University of Alabama Press
The Eleventh House is a remarkable memoir by an influential critic, teacher, world traveler, and raconteur whose sheer exuberance helped to form a network of literary friendships unparalleled in twentieth-century arts and letters. Hudson Strode—writer, gardener, gourmet, and world traveler—proceeds from his childhood home in Alabama to the international literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, recounting meetings with Eugene O'Neill, H. L. Mencken, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, the Prince of Wales, and the King of Sweden.
- Copyright year: 1975
The Domesticated Penis
How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates that not only natural selection but also female choice has played a key role in shaping male anatomy
Public Administration's Final Exam
A Pragmatist Restructuring of the Profession and the Discipline
University of Alabama Press
Examines why public administration’s literature has failed to justify the profession’s legitimacy as an instrument of governance
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
By Allen Fisher; Foreword by Pierre Joris
University of Alabama Press
Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher’s remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bonapartists in the Borderlands
French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835
University of Alabama Press
Discusses the ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution
- Copyright year: 2005
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Ideological History of American Liberalism
University of Alabama Press
Examines the origin, elements, and evolving significance of the “tides” in his discourse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- Copyright year: 1994
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