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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The Ecology of Modernism
American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics
University of Alabama Press
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an environmental aesthetic, and explains why American modernism was never green. Examining the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution, Joshua Schuster posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
- Copyright year: 2015
Plague Among the Magnolias
The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi
University of Alabama Press
Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
- Copyright year: 2009
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
By Eva M. McMahan; Foreword by Ronald J. Grele
University of Alabama Press
Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.
Bound to Respect
Antebellum Narratives of Black Imprisonment, Servitude, and Bondage, 1816–1861
University of Alabama Press
Challenges the commonplace narrative that the African American experience of captivity in the United States is reducible to the legal institution of slavery, a status remedied through emancipation
- Copyright year: 2015
Silence & Song
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Award-winning writer Melanie Rae Thon’s Silence & Song is a diptych, two lyric fictions hinged by a short prose poem. Inspired and informed by biology, physics, music, history, intimate violence, and miraculous resilience, the three pieces move from mourning to song.
- Copyright year: 2015
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides
Stories
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
It Had Been Planned and There Were Guides, Jessica Lee Richardson’s debut collection of short fiction, was the tenth winner of the Fiction Collective Two (FC2) Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. The book invites readers on a bodily journey through a darkly funny, buoyantly untethered storyscape.
- Copyright year: 2015
Education for Liberation
The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
By Joe M. Richardson and Maxine D. Jones
University of Alabama Press
Education for Liberation completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War II era.
Banning Queer Blood
Rhetorics of Citizenship, Contagion, and Resistance
University of Alabama Press
Frames blood donation as a performance of civic identity closely linked to the meaning of citizenship
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942
A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
By Paul A. Shapiro; Translated by Angela Jianu
University of Alabama Press
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941–1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation by Romania under Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally.
- Copyright year: 2015
Split-Gut Song
Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
University of Alabama Press
A deft study of the evolving literary aesthetic of one of the first avant-garde black writers in America.
Politics and Welfare in Birmingham, 1900–1975
University of Alabama Press
This well-written volume explores the relationships between politics and welfare programs for low-income residents in Birmingham during four periods in the 20th century.
- Copyright year: 1995
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
University of Alabama Press
Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries offers a collection of nineteen essays that deftly erodes the simplistic distinction between modernism and postmodernism, showing that many attributes of postmodernist verse form not a break with, but rather a continuation of, modernist poetry.
- Copyright year: 2015
Avenues of Faith
Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900–1929
University of Alabama Press
The first thorough study of organized mainline churches in a major southern American city during the early 20th century
Captain Billy's Troopers
A Writer's Life
By William Cobb
University of Alabama Press
Opens a candid window into the life of a writer and teacher who overcame years of addiction and serious health problems as his voice, artistic vision, and sense of self evolved and matured
- Copyright year: 2015
The Great Melding
War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America's New Conservatism
University of Alabama Press
The Great Melding: War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Road to America's New Conservatism is the second book in Glenn Feldman’s groundbreaking series on how the American South switched its allegiance from the Democratic to the Republican Party in the twentieth century.
- Copyright year: 2015
Visions of the Black Belt
A Cultural Survey of the Heart of Alabama
University of Alabama Press
Visions of the Black Belt offers a rich cultural overview of the emblematic core of Alabama known for its prairie soils, plantation manors, civil rights history, gothic churches, traditional foodways, and resilient and gracious people.
- Copyright year: 2015
Science as Service
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930
Edited by Alan I Marcus
University of Alabama Press
Science as Service is a collection of essays that traces the development of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act of 1862, and documents how their faith and efforts in science and technology gave credibility and power to these institutions and their scientists.
- Copyright year: 2015
Among the Garifuna
Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast
University of Alabama Press
An intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean
- Copyright year: 2015
Writing Religion
The Case for the Critical Study of Religion
Edited by Steven W. Ramey; Foreword by Theodore Louis Trost and Steven Leonard Jacobs; Introduction by Steven W. Ramey; Afterword by Russell T. McCutcheon
University of Alabama Press
Writing Religion: The Case for the Critical Study of Religion is a collection of outstanding essays on wide-ranging aspects of religious studies by well-known scholars, delivered as part of the University of Alabama’s annual Aronov Lectures.
- Copyright year: 2015
Heart of Creation
The Mesoamerican World and the Legacy of Linda Schele
Edited by Andrea Stone
University of Alabama Press
Of interest to professionals as well as generalists, this collection will stand as a marker of the state of Mayan studies at the turn of the 21st century and as a tribute to the remarkable personality, Linda Schele, who guided a large part of that archaeological research for more than two decades.
- Copyright year: 2002
The Victory Album
Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
University of Alabama Press
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815
Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans
By Tom Kanon
University of Alabama Press
Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815 by Tom Kanon tells the often forgotten story of the central role citizens and soldiers from Tennessee played in the Creek War in Alabama and War of 1812.
- Copyright year: 2014
Hunt the Devil
A Demonology of US War Culture
By Robert L. Ivie and Oscar Giner
University of Alabama Press
Hunt the Devil explains the origins and processes of the repetitive American reflex to demonize and then wage war against perceived opponents as well as ways to break the cycle.
- Copyright year: 2015
For Decades I Was Silent
A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
University of Alabama Press
A fascinating memoir about a Holocaust survivor's loss of and journey back to faith.
- Copyright year: 2008
Colonizing Paradise
Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies
University of Alabama Press
Explores how perceptions and depictions of the physical landscape both reflected and influenced the history of the British colonial Caribbean
- Copyright year: 2015
What I Say
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America
Edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Preface by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey; Introduction by C. S. Giscombe
University of Alabama Press
What I Say is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Edited by Scott Eastman and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
University of Alabama Press
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World is a collection of original essays that offer insights into how the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 shaped and influenced the political culture of Iberian America.
- Copyright year: 2015
Inside the Teaching Machine
Rhetoric and the Globalization of the U.S. Public Research University
University of Alabama Press
Inside the Teaching Machine argues that the U.S. public research university has always been a vital component of the capitalist political economy. Advocates of higher education have long contended that universities should operate above the crude material negotiations of economics and politics. Such arguments often ignore the historical reality that the American university system emerged through, and in service to, a capitalist political economy.
- Copyright year: 2008
If It Takes All Summer
Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964
By Dan R. Warren; Foreword by Morris Dees
University of Alabama Press
An insider’s record of the St. Augustine Civil Rights drama.
- Copyright year: 2008
Edith Wharton in Context
Essays on Intertextuality
University of Alabama Press
These new and classic essays, researched and written over a 25-year period, are driven and enriched by the enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion of a scholar still making discoveries about a subject of lifelong fascination. Essays at the center of the collection explore Wharton’s textual relationships with authors whom she knew well—especially Henry James but also Paul Bourget, F. Marion Crawford, and Vivienne de Watteville.
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America
An Interpretive Guide
University of Alabama Press
A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period
- Copyright year: 2015
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail
An Illustrated Guide to the Cradle of Freedom
By Frye Gaillard; Foreword by Juan Williams
University of Alabama Press
Alabama’s great civil rights events in a compact and accessible narrative, paired with a practical guide to Alabama’s preserved civil rights sites and monuments
- Copyright year: 2009
Transforming the Dead
Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest
University of Alabama Press
The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals.
- Copyright year: 2015
Show Us How You Do It
Marshall Keeble and the Rise of Black Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914-1968
University of Alabama Press
A major figure in southern black restorationist church history
- Copyright year: 2008
Searching for Freedom after the Civil War
Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman
University of Alabama Press
Examines the life stories and perspectives about freedom in relation to the figures depicted in an infamous Reconstruction-era political cartoon
- Copyright year: 2015
Raphael Semmes
The Philosophical Mariner
University of Alabama Press
- Copyright year: 1997
Between the Eagle and the Sun
Traces of Japan
By Ihab Hassan
University of Alabama Press
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
University of Alabama Press
In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.
- Copyright year: 2015
Loving God's Wildness
The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
University of Alabama Press
Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God’s Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America’s ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.
- Copyright year: 2015
Lincoln's Trident
The West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War
University of Alabama Press
Lincoln’s Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron’s quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.
- Copyright year: 2014
Immersive Words
Mass Media, Visuality, and American Literature, 1839–1893
University of Alabama Press
Immersive Words traces how innovations in visual practices and aesthetics in the nineteenth century changed the aesthetics of American literature with profound consequences for America’s evolving national identity.
- Copyright year: 2015
Wings of Gold
An Account of Naval Aviation Training in World War II, The Correspondence of Aviation Cadet/Ensign Robert R. Rea
Edited by Wesley Phillips Newton and Robert R. Rea
University of Alabama Press
Wings of Gold presents the personal account of the experiences and reactions of an individual cadet preparing for war in the naval aviation training program at its peak during World War II.
- Copyright year: 1987
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
University of Alabama Press
Synthesizing a wealth of primary and secondary sources, Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán offers a fresh study of the complex and violent history of Mexico’s easternmost Gulf Coast region that expands and revises perceptions of liberal as well as Second Empire politics from 1855 to 1876.
- Copyright year: 2015
Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
University of Alabama Press
A highly innovative study in which James B. Stoltman uses petrography to reveal previously undetectable evidence of cultural interaction among Hopewell societies of the Ohio Valley region and the contemporary peoples of the Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Seed
A Novel
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
In an age of contested values, Stanley Crawford’s wry Seed offers a sardonic exploration of the meaning of “values.” Curmudgeon Bill Starr’s end-of-life decisions illuminate the values that rule his life and his heirs’, as well as the material objects he and they perceive as having value.
- Copyright year: 2015
O'Hearn
By Greg Mulcahy
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
O’Hearn is the second novel by highly praised writer Greg Mulcahy, author of Out of Work, Constellation, and Carbine. Timely and mordantly sardonic, O’Hearn tells the story of the disintegration of a man’s life refracted through the prism of his office life.
- Copyright year: 2015
Hospice
University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
Hospice is the debut novel of Gregory Howard. In it, he follows Lucy, a young woman whose series of jobs opens windows into the strange lives of others and in so doing brings her back to her own secrets.
- Copyright year: 2015
The Archaeology of Events
Cultural Change and Continuity in the Pre-Columbian Southeast
Edited by Zackary I. Gilmore and Jason M. O'Donoughue
University of Alabama Press
The first work to apply an events-based approach to the analysis of pivotal developments in the pre-Columbian Southeast
- Copyright year: 2015
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Edited by Julie Carr and Jeffrey C. Robinson
University of Alabama Press
A collection of essays highlighting the pervasive, yet often unacknowledged, role of Romantic poetry and poetics on modern and contemporary innovative poetry
- Copyright year: 2015
Collards
A Southern Tradition from Seed to Table
By Edward H. Davis and John T. Morgan
University of Alabama Press
The definitive survey of collards, an iconic southern food
- Copyright year: 2015
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