University of Alabama Press

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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Blessed Are the Activists

Catholic Advocacy, Human Rights, and Genocide in Guatemala

By Michael J. Cangemi

University of Alabama Press

Documents the history of Catholic activists to mitigate human rights abuses in Guatemala and the failed US policies in the country and region during the 1970s and 1980s

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Tattered Kimonos in Japan

Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II

By Robert Rand

University of Alabama Press

Examines Japan’s war generation—Japanese men and women who survived World War Two and rebuilt their lives, into the 21st century, from memories of that conflict

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Uncanny Fidelity

Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television

By James Newlin

University of Alabama Press

How the study of Shakespeare’s legacy, specifically in film and television, can radically challenge what we consider to be authentically Shakespearean

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Time in the Barrel

A Marine's Account of the Battle for Con Thien

By James P. Coan

University of Alabama Press

A Marine’s highly personal memoir reliving the hellish days of a pivotal conflict of the Vietnam War

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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island

Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

By Prudence M. Rice

University of Alabama Press

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories

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Aggression and Sufferings

Settler Violence, Native Resistance, and the Coalescence of the Old South

By F. Evan Nooe; Foreword by Andrew K. Frank, Angela Pulley Hudson, and Kristofer Ray

University of Alabama Press

A bold reconceptualization of how settler expansion and narratives of victimhood, honor, and revenge drove the conquest and erasure of the Native South and fed the emergence of a distinct white southern identity

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The Case for Single Motherhood

Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations

By Katherine Elizabeth Mack

University of Alabama Press

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations

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