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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Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American “hot” music emerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929
- Copyright year: 2015
Alabama
The Making of an American State
University of Alabama Press
A thorough, accessible, and heavily illustrated history of Alabama
- Copyright year: 2016
Edgar and Brigitte
A German Jewish Passage to America
By Rosemarie Bodenheimer; Afterword by Rosemarie Bodenheimer
University of Alabama Press
A consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding
- Copyright year: 2016
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
University of Alabama Press
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Civil War Memoirs of a Virginia Cavalryman
By Robert T. Hubard; Edited by Thomas P Nanzig
University of Alabama Press
A witness who brings remarkable life and color to the Civil War in the East
A Man's Game
Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism
By John Dudley
University of Alabama Press
Demonstrates how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism
Year of the Rat
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Marc Anthony Richardson's Year of the Rat is a poignant and riveting literary debut narrated in an unabashedly exuberant voice.
- Copyright year: 2016
Exploring Wild Alabama
A Guide to the State's Publicly Accessible Natural Areas
University of Alabama Press
The most comprehensive guide available to Alabama’s publicly accessible natural destinations
- Copyright year: 2016
Lost City, Found Pyramid
Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices
Edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson
University of Alabama Press
Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeologies and Pseudoscientific Practices explores the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology in popular culture and the ways that professional archaeologists can respond to sensationalized depictions of archaeology and archaeologists.
- Copyright year: 2016
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars
University of Alabama Press
Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars is a wide-ranging and accessible account of American and British poetry, music, and visual art born of World War I and World War II. In it, Stout argues that poetry, of all the arts, most fully captures and conveys the modern culture of grief embodied by war experiences.
Beyond Boundaries
Rereading John Steinbeck
Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle
University of Alabama Press
The result of a worldwide effort to assess both the current state of critical understanding of John Steinbeck’s works and the extent of his cultural influence
Ain't Nothin' But a Winner
Bear Bryant, The Goal Line Stand, and a Chance of a Lifetime
University of Alabama Press
A rollicking memoir from the linebacker at the heart of the most famous Alabama football play of all time
- Copyright year: 2006
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
University of Alabama Press
Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham’s introduction to Georgia’s thirteen most famous haunted houses and ghostly visitations.
- Copyright year: 1987
Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
Commemorative Edition
By Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh; Foreword by Dilcy Windham Hilley and Ben Windham
University of Alabama Press
This keepsake edition of the timeless bestseller Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey by folklorists Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh reproduces in facsimile the original hardcover version of a beloved classic.
- Copyright year: 1969
Civil War Weather in Virginia
University of Alabama Press
Civil War Weather in Virginia fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and Richmond, Virginia.
Footprints in Stone
Fossil Traces of Coal-Age Tetrapods
University of Alabama Press
Footprints in Stone is the definitive guide to the Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site in northwest Alabama, the discovery of whose vast quantity of 310-million-year-old fossil tetrapod footprints and other traces is one of the most significant developments in modern paleontology.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 24
Theatre and Space
Edited by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses “theatre and space” as a wide-ranging topic in theatre history, examining the myriad spatial arrangements, architectural styles, and historical contexts that inform theatrical productions, and the relationships of audiences to those spaces
- Copyright year: 2016
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South
The Other Invisible Institution
University of Alabama Press
Macaulay challenges the prevailing belief that religion in the south developed solely through "revivalistic emotion" and not by religious rationalism.
Thomas Goode Jones
Race, Politics, and Justice in the New South
University of Alabama Press
Thomas Goode Jones of Alabama is the first comprehensive biography of a key Alabama politician and federal jurist whose life and times embody the conflicts and transformations in the Deep South between the Civil War and World War I.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Myth of Water
Poems from the Life of Helen Keller
University of Alabama Press
In The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller, Alabama poet Jeanie Thompson offers a rich collection of poems that form an illuminating first-person narrative through the life of writer and activist Helen Keller.
- Copyright year: 2016
Schooling Readers
Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Schooling Readers takes up a largely unexplored genre of fiction, the common school narrative, popular between 1830 and 1890. These stories both propagate and challenge the myth of the idyllic one-room school, and reveal Americans’ perceptions of and anxieties about public education, many of which still resonate today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Breach of Trust/Abuso de confianza
By Ángel Escobar; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The best-known work by acclaimed Cuban poet Ángel Escobar
The Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
By Brett Ommen
University of Alabama Press
The Politics of the Superficial argues that the increasing volume of visually communicative surfaces in public life contributes to a very particular form of public imagination and political activity.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
Language and Experience
By Ronald Berman; Introduction by Ronald Berman
University of Alabama Press
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz."
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders
University of Alabama Press
Trailing Clouds of Glory is the first examination of the roles played in the Mexican War by the large number of men who served with Taylor and who would be prominent in the next war, both as volunteer and regular army officers, and it provides fresh information, even on such subjects as Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Particularly interesting for the student of the Civil War are largely unknown aspects of the Mexican War service of Daniel Harvey Hill, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas W. Sherman.
- Copyright year: 2010
Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction
University of Alabama Press
Explores the influence of domesticity on the writing and career of Samuel Clemens, reframing with rich biographical detail and historical context Twain’s major late-nineteenth century work
- Copyright year: 2016
In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
University of Alabama Press
How Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Memories of Two Generations
A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas
By Alexander Z. Gurwitz; Edited by Bryan Edward Stone; Translated by Amram Prero; Introduction by Bryan Edward Stone; Preface by Alexander Z. Gurwitz
University of Alabama Press
The 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history
- Copyright year: 2016
A Universal Theory of Pottery Production
Irving Rouse, Attributes, Modes, and Ethnography
University of Alabama Press
By an analysis of ceramic production, appendage, and decorative techniques at the Paso del Indio archaeological site in Puerto Rico, Richard A. Krause’s A Universal Theory of Pottery Production offers new insight into a classic theory of pottery manufacture by production steps and stages.
- Copyright year: 2016
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is a probing examination of how the writing of sexual love undergoes a radical revision by avant-garde poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Today, the exploration of love by poets—long a fixture of Western poetic tradition—is thought to be in decline, with love itself understood to be a mere ideological overlay for the more “real” entities of physical sex and desire.
- Copyright year: 2016
Fanning the Spark
A Memoir
University of Alabama Press
Fanning the Spark is the story of Mary Ward Brown's life as a writer—her upbringing in rural Alabama; the joys of college, marriage, and motherhood; the sorrows of becoming a widow; and a lifelong devotion to writing, writers, and literature, and the company of those who shared those loves, nurturing and feeding her interior life in the face of many challenges, losses, and obstacles, both emotional and material.
Creating Citizens
Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition
Edited by Brigitta R. Brunner; Introduction by Brigitta R. Brunner
University of Alabama Press
Creating Citizens is a collection of essays about Community and Civic Engagement (CCE) learning at land-grant universities. They demonstrate the surprising and robust ways such programs bolster and enhance the mission of land-grant institutions.
- Copyright year: 2016
Canons by Consensus
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
By Joseph Csicsila; Foreword by Tom Quirk
University of Alabama Press
The first systematic analysis of American literature textbooks used by college instructors in the last century
Archaeopoetics
Word, Image, History
University of Alabama Press
Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge
- Copyright year: 2016
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America
An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court
University of Alabama Press
Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America is the definitive biography of a Virginia legislator and jurist whose life and career mirror the transformational decades of US history between the War of 1812 and the end of the Mexican American War in 1848.
- Copyright year: 2016
Opposing the Second Corps at Antietam
The Fight for the Confederate Left and Center on America's Bloodiest Day
University of Alabama Press
Offers a definitive guide to the Confederate army’s primary engagements at the epic Battle of Antietam
- Copyright year: 2016
Democracy's Lot
Rhetoric, Publics, and the Places of Invention
By Candice Rai
University of Alabama Press
Traces the communication strategies of various constituencies in a Chicago neighborhood, offering insights into the challenges that beset diverse urban populations and demonstrating persuasively rhetoric’s power to illuminate and resolve charged conflicts
- Copyright year: 2016
The Village on the Plain
Auburn University, 1856–2006
By Dwayne Cox
University of Alabama Press
The Village on the Plain: Auburn University, 1856–2006 tells the story of the founding of Auburn University as a small private college and the tumultuous history of its growth and transformation into the complex institution it is today.
- Copyright year: 2016
Natural Wonders
A Novel
By Angela Woodward; Foreword by Stacey Levine
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Natural Wonders is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth’s history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband’s papers.
- Copyright year: 2016
Intimacy
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Intimacy is the story of an unnamed narrator ruminating on suicide. He reflects on the origins and significance of his material possessions, and on the seemingly inconsequential moments in his life, while he prepares to carry out his plans.
- Copyright year: 2016
Hex
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
The debut novel by Sarah Blackman (award-winning author of Mother Box and Other Tales) Hex explores the ways one woman uses language and stories to rebuild her own shattered sense of self.
- Copyright year: 2016
Civil War Alabama
By Christopher Lyle McIlwain; Foreword by G. Ward Hubbs
University of Alabama Press
In fascinating detail, Civil War Alabama reveals the forgotten breadth of political opinions and loyalties among white Alabamians during the antebellum period. The book offers a major reevaluation of Alabama’s secession crisis and path to war and destruction.
Turning the Tide
The University of Alabama in the 1960s
By Earl H. Tilford; Foreword by Jack Drake
University of Alabama Press
Turning the Tide is an institutional and cultural history of a dramatic decade of change at the University of Alabama set against the backdrop of desegregation, the continuing civil rights struggle, and the growing antiwar movement.
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems)/El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales)
By Juan Carlos Flores; Edited by Kristin Dykstra; Translated by Kristin Dykstra; Introduction by Kristin Dykstra
University of Alabama Press
The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales) is a collection of prose poems dedicated to “the poetical resurrection of Alamar,” the neighborhood where Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores has lived for decades.
- Copyright year: 2016
Heightened Expectations
The Rise of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America
University of Alabama Press
Heightened Expectations explores the complex relationship between the history of the social stigmatization of short stature in boys and the rise of the multibillion-dollar human growth hormone industry.
- Copyright year: 2016
Dismembering the American Dream
The Life and Fiction of Richard Yates
University of Alabama Press
Dismembering the American Dream offers a detailed study of the fiction of writer Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road. His novels and short stories explore mid-twentieth-century middle-class American life.
Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
University of Alabama Press
Continuing Bonds with the Dead explores the redemptive literary achievements of five nineteenth-century American authors who lost a son or daughter. In it, Harold K. Bush illuminates America’s evolving cultural attitudes about death and grief.
- Copyright year: 2016
Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics
University of Alabama Press
This study of physical and sexual child abuse in the Deep South was designed to determine the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the state of Alabama, to identify the characteristics of confirmed child abuse, and to test the hypothesis that community size would contribute to a unique picture of the surveillance, reporting, and caseworker determination of abuse.
- Copyright year: 1988
After Strange Texts
The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Edited by Gregory S. Jay and David L. Miller
University of Alabama Press
Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading
- Copyright year: 1985
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
University of Alabama Press
An audacious, interdisciplinary study that combines the burgeoning fields of digital aesthetics and eco-criticism
- Copyright year: 2016
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