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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Essays in Jewish Thought

University of Alabama Press

Examines and explores diverse topics of Jewish thought and history

  • Copyright year: 2009
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The Very Worst Road

Travellers' Accounts of Crossing Alabama's Old Creek Indian Territory, 1820-1847

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
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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
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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
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The Great War in the Air

Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921

University of Alabama Press

"A comprehensive study of the totality of the air war in its military, political, industrial, and cultural aspects distinguish this book from other treatments of military aviation during this period. . . . Morrow's efforts have yielded new insights into the evolution of military aviation and corrected previous oversights. The author's attention to developments in production and logistics, as well as events at the front, provide the most complete understanding of the development of air power and its role in the Great War."--American Historical Review

  • Copyright year: 2009
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Public Indians, Private Cherokees

Tourism and Tradition on Tribal Ground

University of Alabama Press

Explores the major economic industry among American Indian tribes—public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues

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Heritage or Heresy

Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera

University of Alabama Press

Through analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, Walker reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Speaking with the Ancestors

Mississippian Stone Statuary of the Tennessee-Cumberland Region

University of Alabama Press

During the last twenty years the authors have researched over 88 possible examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago, and discovered along the river valleys of the interior Southeast. Independently and in conjunction, they have measured, analyzed, photographed, and traced the known history of the 42 that appear in this volume.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age

University of Alabama Press
  • Copyright year: 2007
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Digital Poetics

Hypertext, Visual-Kinetic Text and Writing in Programmable Media

University of Alabama Press

Glazier investigates the ways in which computer technology has influenced and transformed the writing and dissemination of poetry
 

  • Copyright year: 2001
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