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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Chemical Lands
Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945
University of Alabama Press
An exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment
- Copyright year: 2018
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone
Southern Reform Rabbis and the Civil Rights Movement
By P. Allen Krause; Edited by Mark K. Bauman and Stephen Krause; Introduction by P. Allen Krause and Mark K. Bauman
University of Alabama Press
To Stand Aside or Stand Alone is a landmark collection of previously unpublished interviews with Reform rabbis concerning their roles in the civil rights movement.
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre History Studies 2017, Vol. 36
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: 2017
Martin Buber's Formative Years
From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909
University of Alabama Press
An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber’s early career.
- Copyright year: 1995
Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton
University of Alabama Press
An investigation into Wharton’s extensive use and adaptation of the Gothic in her fiction
- Copyright year: 1995
Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat
Volume 1
University of Alabama Press
A Civil War history classic, now back in print.
- Copyright year: 1991
Borders of Visibility
Haitian Migrant Women and the Dominican Nation-State
University of Alabama Press
An anthropological study of Haitian migrant women’s mobility in the Dominican Republic
- Copyright year: 2018
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things
University of Alabama Press
Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.
- Copyright year: 2016
Bringing Montessori to America
S. S. McClure, Maria Montessori, and the Campaign to Publicize Montessori Education
By Gerald L. Gutek and Patricia A. Gutek
University of Alabama Press
Tells the little known story of the collaboration and clash between the indomitable educator Maria Montessori and the American publisher S. S. McClure over the launch of Montessori education in the United States
- Copyright year: 2016
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 25
Cross-Cultural Dialogue on the Global Stage
Edited by Becky K. Becker; Introduction by Becky K. Becker
University of Alabama Press
Addresses the ways that theatre both shapes cross-cultural dialogue and is itself, in turn, shaped by those forces.
- Copyright year: 2017
A Movement of the People
The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama
By Katie Lamar Jackson; Foreword by David Mathews
University of Alabama Press
How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness
- Copyright year: 2017
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
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